affirmative
About 5.27 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
an affirmative answer
- adjective pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
- adjective positive
an affirmative vote
- adjective Confirmative; ratifying.
an act affirmative of common law
- adjective Dogmatic.
- adjective Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- adjective positive; not negative
- noun Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.
Similar words
affirmatory assentient agreeing positive pro favorable concessive optimistic assenting conceding
Often followed by
action answer defense and vote or defenses duty of
Word family
affirmatively affirmatives
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