Fateful vs. Positive — What's the Difference?

Having far-reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications

Characterized by or displaying certainty, acceptance, or affirmation

Vitally affecting subsequent events; being of great consequence; momentous

Measured or moving forward or in a direction of increase or progress

Controlled by or as if by fate; predetermined.

Desirable, admirable, or beneficial

Bringing death or disaster; fatal.

Optimistic or constructive

Ominously prophetic; portentous

Not disparaging or malicious

Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.

Very confident; certain

Determined in advance by fate, fated.

Explicitly or openly expressed or laid down

Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.

Admitting of no doubt; irrefutable

Significant of fate; ominous.

Concerned with practical rather than theoretical matters.

Having momentous consequences; of decisive importance;

Of or relating to being or the possession of qualities rather than non-being or the absence of qualities

Of ominous significance

Of or relating to positivism.

(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;

Of or relating to positive law.

Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined;

Of or relating to religion based on revelation rather than on nature or reason alone.

(Informal) Utter; absolute

Relating to or designating a quantity greater than zero.

Relating to or designating the sign (+).

Relating to or designating a quantity, number, angle, or direction opposite to another designated as negative.

Relating to or designating an electric charge of a sign opposite to that of an electron.

Of or relating to a body having fewer electrons than protons.

(Chemistry) Of or relating to an ion, the cation, that is attracted to a negative electrode.

(Medicine) Indicating the presence of a particular disease, condition, or organism

(Biology) Indicating or characterized by response or motion toward the source of a stimulus, such as light

Having the areas of light and dark in their original and normal relationship, as in a photographic print made from a negative.

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or being the simple uncompared degree of an adjective or adverb, as opposed to either the comparative or superlative.

Driven by or generating power directly through intermediate machine parts having little or no play

An affirmative element or characteristic.

(Mathematics) A quantity greater than zero.

(Physics) A positive electric charge.

A photographic image in which the lights and darks appear as they do in nature.

The uncompared degree of an adjective or adverb.

A word in this degree.

(Music) A division of some pipe organs, similar in sound to the great but smaller and less powerful.

Not negative or neutral.

(law) Formally laid down.

Stated definitively and without qualification.

Fully assured in opinion.

(mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.

Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.

Overconfident, dogmatic.

Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.

(physics) Having more protons than electrons.

(grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.

(grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.

Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.

Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.

Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.

(photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.

Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.

Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.

Optimistic.

(chemistry) electropositive

(chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.

(slang) HIV positive.

(New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').

A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.

A favourable point or characteristic.

Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.

(grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.

(grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.

(photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.

The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

A positive result of a test.

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; - opposed to negative.

Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; - opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.

Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; - opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise.

Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof.

Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.

Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; - said of persons.

Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation.

Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.

Electro-positive.

Designating, or pertaining to, a motion or device in which the movement derived from a driver, or the grip or hold of a restraining piece, is communicated through an unyielding intermediate piece or pieces; as, a claw clutch is a positive clutch, while a friction clutch is not.

Designating a method of steering or turning in which the steering wheels move so that they describe concentric arcs in making a turn, to insure freedom from side slip or harmful resistance.

That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.

That which settles by absolute appointment.

The positive degree or form.

A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.

The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

A film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.;

Having a positive electric charge;

Involving advantage or good;

Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen;

Formally laid down or imposed;

Impossible to deny or disprove;

Of or relating to positivism;

Greater than zero;

Marked by excessive confidence;

Persuaded of; very sure;

Granting what has been desired or requested;