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Positive Verbs

By V Y Published 15 Jul 2022 Updated 17 Nov 2022 2 min read
Entry typeLanguage reference
Last updated17 Nov 2022
EditorV Y

Positive A Verbs

  • Accomplish
  • Admire
  • Advance
  • Affirm
  • Agree
  • Amaze
  • Amuse
  • Animate
  • Anticipate
  • Aspire
  • Assist
  • Assure
  • Attain

Positive B Verbs

  • Balance
  • Beam
  • Become
  • Befriend
  • Benefit
  • Bestow
  • Bless
  • Bloom
  • Brighten

Positive C Verbs

  • Calibrate
  • Care
  • Caress
  • Charm
  • Choose
  • Comfort
  • Compliment
  • Congratulate
  • Construct
  • Contribute
  • Cooperate
  • Cope
  • Cuddle

Positive D Verbs

  • Dance
  • Daydream
  • Dazzle
  • Defend
  • Delight
  • Depend
  • Develop
  • Diagnose
  • Discover
  • Do

Positive E Verbs

  • Educate
  • Elevate
  • Enable
  • Enchant
  • Encourage
  • Endear
  • Endeavor
  • Enter
  • Enthuse
  • Establish

Positive F Verbs

  • Fascinate
  • Feature
  • Feel
  • Finish
  • Fit
  • Fix
  • Flatter
  • Focus
  • Forgive
  • Fulfil

Positive G Verbs

  • Gain
  • Galvanize
  • Gather
  • Generate
  • Giggle
  • Glide
  • Glitter
  • Glow
  • Graduate
  • Grow

Positive H Verbs

  • Handle
  • Happen
  • Hark
  • Heal
  • Heap
  • Help
  • Hone
  • Hope
  • Hug
  • Humanize

Positive I Verbs

  • Illustrate
  • Imbue
  • Immunize
  • Impart
  • Impress
  • Increase
  • Initiate
  • Inspire
  • Instruct
  • Invite

Positive J Verbs

  • Jaw
  • Jazz
  • Jest
  • Jibe
  • Join
  • Josh
  • Journal
  • Jumpstart
  • Juxtapose

Positive K Verbs

  • Keep
  • Kick
  • Kickstart
  • Kid
  • Kindle
  • Knit
  • Know

Positive L Verbs

  • Land
  • Launch
  • Lavish
  • Learn
  • Let
  • Liberate
  • Lift
  • Like
  • Listen
  • Love

Positive M Verbs

  • Maintain
  • Make
  • Manage
  • Manifest
  • Manufacture
  • Marinate
  • Master
  • Matter
  • Mobilize
  • Motivate

Positive N Verbs

  • Narrow
  • Navigate
  • Neutralize
  • Nod
  • Notice
  • Nourish
  • Nurture

Positive O Verbs

  • Observe
  • Obtain
  • Occur
  • Offer
  • Open
  • Opt
  • Organize
  • Originate
  • Outlast
  • Overcome

Positive P Verbs

  • Pacify
  • Pamper
  • Participate
  • Peak
  • Persevere
  • Please
  • Praise
  • Produce
  • Project
  • Promote
  • Prosper
  • Purify

Positive Q Verbs

  • Quadruple
  • Qualify
  • Quantify
  • Quarantine
  • Quench
  • Query

Positive R Verbs

  • Rally
  • Reason
  • Reassure
  • Receive
  • Reciprocate
  • Recommend
  • Relax
  • Restore
  • Reward
  • Rise

Positive S Verbs

  • Safe
  • Sensible
  • Simple
  • Sincere
  • Smart
  • Special
  • Steady
  • Sumptuous
  • Super
  • Supreme
  • Sure

Positive T Verbs

  • Tame
  • Teach
  • Tend
  • Thank
  • Think
  • Thrive
  • Thrum
  • Transcend
  • Trust
  • Try

Positive U Verbs

  • Uncover
  • Underscore
  • Understand
  • Unite
  • Unlock
  • Unplug
  • Update
  • Uplift

Positive V Verbs

  • Validate
  • Ventilate
  • Venture
  • Verify
  • Visit
  • Visualize
  • Vocalize
  • Vow

Positive W Verbs

  • Waive
  • Wave
  • Welcome
  • Win
  • Withstand
  • Wow

Positive Y Verbs

  • Yearn
  • Yield
  • Yodel

Positive Z Verbs

  • Zap
  • Zoom

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