affirmative

Meaning of affirmative

noun
  1. Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
    10-4 good buddy. That's an affirmative - the tractor trailer is in the ditch at the side of the highway.
  2. (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
  3. An assertion.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
    an affirmative answer
  2. Pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
  3. Positive
    an affirmative vote
  4. Confirmative; ratifying.
    an act affirmative of common law
  5. Dogmatic
  6. Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
  7. Positive; not negative
interjection
  1. An elaborate synonym for the word yes.
  2. (especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.

Information about affirmative

Hyphenation of affirmative

af-fir-ma-tive

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • affirmative is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

affirmative synonyms

Meaning affirmatory:

affirmatory

Meaning optimistic:

optimistic

Meaning favoring:

favoring

affirmative antonyms

Meaning :

negative

Translation of affirmative

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