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---
navigation_title: "Boosting"
mapped_pages:
- https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-boosting-query.html
---
# Boosting query [query-dsl-boosting-query]
Returns documents matching a `positive` query while reducing the [relevance score](/reference/query-languages/query-filter-context.md#relevance-scores) of documents that also match a `negative` query.
You can use the `boosting` query to demote certain documents without excluding them from the search results.
## Example request [boosting-query-ex-request]
```console
GET /_search
{
"query": {
"boosting": {
"positive": {
"term": {
"text": "apple"
}
},
"negative": {
"term": {
"text": "pie tart fruit crumble tree"
}
},
"negative_boost": 0.5
}
}
}
```
## Top-level parameters for `boosting` [boosting-top-level-params]
`positive`
: (Required, query object) Query you wish to run. Any returned documents must match this query.
`negative`
: (Required, query object) Query used to decrease the [relevance score](/reference/query-languages/query-filter-context.md#relevance-scores) of matching documents.
If a returned document matches the `positive` query and this query, the `boosting` query calculates the final [relevance score](/reference/query-languages/query-filter-context.md#relevance-scores) for the document as follows:
1. Take the original relevance score from the `positive` query.
2. Multiply the score by the `negative_boost` value.
`negative_boost`
: (Required, float) Floating point number between `0` and `1.0` used to decrease the [relevance scores](/reference/query-languages/query-filter-context.md#relevance-scores) of documents matching the `negative` query.