positively

Etymology

From Middle English positively, equivalent to positive + -ly.

adv

1. (manner) In a positive manner.
   He approached the interview positively.
2. (modal) With certainty.
   I will positively be there at 8 a.m.
3. Absolutely; utterly.
   […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do. 1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118
   "Positively do not open," reads the message under the cabinet in which Ed and Lorraine put the possessed Annabelle doll. 2017-09-16, Hollywood, “Demonic possession, cries for help: Read the chilling true story behind the Conjuring’s creepy Annabelle doll”, in Hindustan Times
4. (degree) Very.
   I had a positively wonderful time.
   The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess
   In the 90s it was Craigslist and AOL chat rooms, then Match.com and Kiss.com. But the lengthy, heartfelt e-mails exchanged by the main characters in You’ve Got Mail (1998) seem positively Victorian in comparison to the messages sent on the average dating app today. 2015, Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse””, in Vanity Fair