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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
confirmed
adjective
1: of persons; not subject to change; "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid"
2: having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation; "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic" [ant: {unconfirmed}]
3: having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker" [syn: {chronic}, {habitual}, {inveterate(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "confirmed": accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, actual, admitted, affirmed, allowed, approved, ascertained, attested, authenticated, avowed, borne out, categorically true, certain, certified, chronic, circumstantiated, conceded, confessed, corroborated, countersigned, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, demonstrated, determined, documentary, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, embedded, embossed, endorsed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, factual, fast, firmly established, fixed, granted, graven, habituated, historical, implanted, impressed, imprinted, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, instilled, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, long-established, not in error, notarized, objectively true, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, professed, proved, proven, ratified, real, received, recognized, rooted, sealed, set, settled, settled in habit, shown, signed, stabilized, stamped, substantiated, sure-enough, sworn, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, tested, thorough, tried, tried and true, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, underwritten, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, vested, warranted, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled
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