How to use Words of Positivity
A good result is not the longest list. It is one word whose meaning and example fit what you are trying to say.
Search runs across everything
The search box is at the top of every page and it looks through all 4,654 entries, not just the ones on the page you are reading. It matches the word and its definition, so searching for an idea such as care, steady or confidence works as well as searching for a spelling. You can also match only the start of a word, its end, or any part of it.
Results open under the search box, and the line above them says how many words matched and how many are on screen. Escape or Cancel closes the results. The A to Z page has the same search built into the page.
Filters narrow the same list
Part of speech, tone, length, whether a word describes a person, and how common it is are filters on one list rather than separate pages. You can combine them, and each active filter appears as a chip you can remove on its own.
On the A to Z page and the letter pages, the address bar keeps your search and your filters, so you can send someone the exact view you are looking at, and the back button takes you to the previous one.
What the labels mean
Every entry carries a part of speech, one or two tone labels, and, where it is rarer than ordinary English, a less common label. Tone is how a word feels. Register, which appears wherever the site offers you a choice between words, is how a word lands.
These are two different things and it matters, so they are explained once, properly, in the glossary. The tones are calm, capable, energetic, hopeful, joyful, kind, resilient, thoughtful.
Wherever alternatives are offered, they are listed inside each meaning in a fixed order: playful, everyday, warm, professional, formal, literary. That order is a layout convention so every page has the same shape. It is not a ranking and nothing here says one is better than another.
Your list
The + at the end of a row adds that word to your list. Your list stays in this browser as you move between pages, and a word in it is highlighted wherever it appears. You can reorder it, copy it with or without meanings, print it as a numbered sheet, or copy a link that shows the list on the A to Z page. Your list itself is not sent to us. A list link is different: its words are part of the address, so opening it sends them to this site with the page request, and the visit is counted with that address as the privacy page explains.
Copy tells you the truth about what happened. If your browser refuses the clipboard, the list appears in a box with the text already selected so you can press Ctrl+C or Command+C. It never says copied when nothing was copied.
When you only want the one word, the copy button beside the + copies it on its own. If the clipboard refuses that too, the word is selected on the page instead and the page says so.
Printing
Any page prints as it reads, with every collapsed group opened, so nothing you can reach on screen is missing from paper. Letter and task pages that have a word sheet also print that sheet alone on one page of A4 or US Letter. If you have a list, it prints as a numbered appendix on its own page with each word, its definition and its example.
If search or buttons don't work
The search box, the filters, your list and the copy buttons use features that a browser may block. If that happens, those controls are left off the page instead of being shown when they cannot work.
Everything else works. All 4,654 entries on 4,014 root words are still reachable: every letter page carries its full list, every collapsed group opens, every definition and example is there, every link works, and every page still prints. Instead of the search box you get a link straight to the A to Z index.