affirmative

[ uh-fur-muh-tiv ]

/ əˈfɜr mə tɪv /

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adjective

affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.

expressing agreement or consent; assenting: an affirmative reply.

positive; not negative.

Logic. noting a proposition in which a property of a subject is affirmed, as “All men are happy.”

noun

something that affirms or asserts; a positive statement or proposition; affirmation.

a reply indicating assent, as Yes or I do.

a manner or mode that indicates assent: a reply in the affirmative.

the side, as in a debate, that affirms or defends a statement that the opposite side denies or attacks: to speak for the affirmative.

interjection

(used to indicate agreement, assent, etc.): “Is this the right way to Lake George?” “Affirmative.”

Origin of affirmative

1400–50; < Latin affirmātīvus, equivalent to affirmāt- (see affirmation) + -īvus -ive; replacing late Middle English affirmatyff < Middle French < Latin

OTHER WORDS FROM affirmative

af·firm·a·tive·ly, adverb o·ver·af·firm·a·tive, adjective o·ver·af·firm·a·tive·ly, adverb pre·af·firm·a·tive, adjective

qua·si-af·firm·a·tive, adjective qua·si-af·firm·a·tive·ly, adverb

Words nearby affirmative

affinity group, affirm, affirmance, affirmant, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative action, affirmative flag, affirmatory, affix, affixation

Example sentences from the Web for affirmatively

With these new apps, users will have to affirmatively click a consent box that gives the app permission to share information.

Facebook’s New Grab for More Data |Justin Brookman |September 22, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
My own mind was fully made up on that point, and affirmatively so.

Parasites |T. Spencer Cobbold
She repeated the phrases over after him, affirmatively, with an emphasis which I never heard surpassed.

Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home |Bayard Taylor
I have answered this affirmatively before, and proved it; one grain of grace would answer it better than arguments can do.

A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4) |Richard Baxter

Soto and Vasquez, casuists of great name, had denied this; Grotius however determines it affirmatively.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam
I was about replying to him affirmatively, when his words arrested my attention.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for affirmatively

affirmative

/ (əˈfɜːmətɪv) /

adjective

confirming or asserting something as true or valid an affirmative statement

indicating agreement or assent an affirmative answer

logic

(of a categorial proposition) affirming the satisfaction by the subject of the predicate, as in all birds have feathers; some men are married
not containing negationCompare negative (def. 12)

noun

a positive assertion

a word or phrase stating agreement or assent, such as yes (esp in the phrase answer in the affirmative)

logic an affirmative proposition

the affirmative mainly US and Canadian the side in a debate that supports the proposition

sentence substitute

military a signal codeword used to express assent or confirmation

Derived forms of affirmative

affirmatively, adverb

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affirmative

adjective

noun

interjection

Origin of affirmative

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Example sentences from the Web for affirmatively

British Dictionary definitions for affirmatively

adjective

noun

sentence substitute

Derived forms of affirmative

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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affirmative

adjective

noun

interjection

Origin of affirmative

OTHER WORDS FROM affirmative

Words nearby affirmative

Words related to affirmatively

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adjective

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Derived forms of affirmative

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