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形容詞

unpositive (comparative more unpositive, superlative most unpositive)

1. Not positive; negative.
   • 1956, United States. Congress. House, Hearings (volume 6, page 2702)

     […] no nation is going to dare provoke an atomic war with us unless it is convinced that the first shock will do away with our power, to use a rather unpositive word, to retaliate.

2. Not positive; unsure.
   • 1977, Jan Ate van Ek, ‎L. G. Alexander, The Threshold Level for Modern Language Learning in Schools (page 159)

     The following three statements will provide an elementary example of what is meant by range: He's 24 years old (positive). He may be about 24 years old (tentative). I'm not sure how old he is (unpositive/uncertain) […]