Positive

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Positive is a term used for an inflectional form which is peculiar to adjectives, and which opposes to the comparative and superlative.

Examples

If we take the English morphs long - longer - longest, the first one is the positive form, the second the comparative and the third the superlative.

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics