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[syn: positivist, positivistic, positive]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
positivistic
adj 1: of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers";
"positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy" [syn:
positivist, positivistic, positive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "positivistic":
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic,
animist, animistic, atomistic, bigoted, commonsense, conceited,
cosmotheistic, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing,
down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic,
existential, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist,
humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic,
instrumentalist, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact,
mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalist,
naturalistic, nominalist, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned,
oracular, panlogistical, pantheistic, peremptory, pontifical,
positive, positivist, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic,
pragmatist, pronunciative, rational, rationalistic, realist,
realistic, reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic,
secular, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, sensationalistic,
sensible, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking,
syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic,
unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian,
vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, worldly