Is the word "unbelievable" positive or negative?

Is the word "unbelievable" positive or negative?
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answer:I’d usually perceive it as negative, unless for some reason you were expecting something to go really poorly; then the ‘unbelievable’ result would be having it actually be amazing. It’s really ambiguous unless you use it as an adverb with a clarifying adjective afterwards: unbelievably amazing, unbelievably disastrous.
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