To thrive positevely

[olegv]

Please explain to me what collocation of thriving positive could mean? Many thanks.

 

[bhaisahab]

Please explain to me what collocation of thriving positive could mean? Many thanks.

Do you have some context for it?

 

[olegv]

it is taken from Oxford Collocations Dictionary - no explanation is given

 

[5jj]

Well 'positively' does not appear in the top 100 collocatess, or top 54 adverb collocates, of 'thrive' in COCA, so I think the Oxford Collocations Dictionary has slipped up

 

[Esredux]

I have a sample sentence from the Oxford Collocation dictionary:

thrive positively (esp.BrE)
"a culture which positively thrives on new ideas"


ps. It doesn't look like a fixed collocation, does it? If so, then the meaning can easily be worked out.

 

[Rover_KE]

Reversing the collocation changes the meaning completely.

'thrive positively' = 'thrive in a beneficial way'

'positively thrive' = 'definitely thrive'

I agree with 5jj: 'I think the Oxford Collocations Dictionary has slipped up'.

Rover

EDIT: 'Thrive' is such a positive word anyway, I doubt anything could be said to thrive negatively.

 

[Esredux]

Reversing the collocation changes the meaning completely.

'thrive positively' = 'thrive in a beneficial way'

'positively thrive' = 'definitely thrive'

I agree with 5jj: 'I think the Oxford Collocations Dictionary has slipped up'.

Rover

EDIT: 'Thrive' is such a positive word anyway, I doubt anything could be said to thrive negatively.

That could be my fault while copying from the Oxford Collocation Dictionary. In fact, that's how it looks there:

thrive verb
adv,
positively ( esp. BrE)
"a culture which positively ~s on new ideas"

From how it is presented in the dictionary, it's hard to tell the exact word order unless you have the sentence itself. So, the confusion is quite understandable.

 

[Tdol]

Rover's explanation fits this example.