 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
affirmative
adjective
1: affirming or giving assent; "an affirmative decision";
"affirmative votes"; "an affirmative nod"; "an
affirmatory gesture" [syn: {affirmatory}] [ant: {negative}]
2: expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook" [syn: {optimistic}]
3: supporting a policy or attitude etc; "an affirmative
argument" [syn: {favoring}]
noun: a reply of affirmation; "he answered in the affirmative"
[ant: {negative}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affirmative \Af*firm"a*tive\, adjective [L. affirmativus: cf. F.
affirmatif.]
1. Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common
law.
2. That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory
of what exists; answering ''yes'' to a question; --
opposed to {negative}; as, an affirmative answer; an
affirmative vote.
3. Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] --J. Taylor.
Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of
Crito. --Berkeley.
4. (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a
proposition.
5. (Alg.) Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are
to be added, and opposed to {negative}, or such as are to
be subtracted.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affirmative \Af*firm"a*tive\, noun
1. That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an
affirmative proposition; that side of question which
affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to
{negative}; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative,
and ten in the negative.
Whether there are such beings or not, 't is
sufficient for my purpose that many have believed
the affirmative. --Dryden.
2. A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as,
yes, that is so, etc.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "affirmative":
OK, absolute, acceptance, accord, accordant, acquiescence,
acquiescent, affirmation, affirmative attitude, affirmative voice,
affirmativeness, affirmatory, agree, agreeable, agreeing,
agreement, amen, answerable, approbation, approval, approving,
assent, assenting, assertative, assertional, assertive, at one,
aye, blessing, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident,
coinciding, commensurate, compatible, compliable, compliance,
compliant, con, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenial,
congruent, congruous, connivance, consent, consentaneous,
consentient, consenting, consistent, consonant, content,
cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, decided,
declarative, declaratory, eager, eagerness, emphatic, en rapport,
endorsement, endorsing, equivalent, favorable, harmonious,
in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization,
inaccordance, inharmony, interest, like-minded, nay, no, nod,
nod of assent, nothing loath, of a piece, of like mind,
of one mind, okay, on all fours, permission, permissive, positive,
predicational, predicative, pro, prompt, promptitude, promptness,
proportionate, ratification, ratifying, readiness, ready,
reconcilable, sanction, sanctioning, self-consistent, side,
submission, submissive, symbiotic, synchronized, synchronous,
the affirmative, the negative, thumbs-up, unanimous, ungrudging,
ungrudgingness, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, unloath,
unloathness, unrefusing, unreluctance, unreluctant, willing,
willingness, yea, yea-saying, yes
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