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affirmative

adj
/əˈfɜːmətɪv/UK/əˈfɝməɾɪv/US

Etymology

From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).

  1. derived from affirmativus
  2. derived from affirmatif
  3. inherited from affirmative

Definitions

  1. pertaining to truth

    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. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Confirmative

      Confirmative; ratifying.

      • an act affirmative of common law

    2. Dogmatic.

      • Lyſicles vvas a little diſconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito; but after a ſhort pauſe replied briskly, […]

    3. Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.

    4. Yes

      Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

      • That’s an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.
      • 10-4 good buddy. That’s an affirmative—the tractor trailer is in the ditch at the side of the highway.

    5. An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

    6. An assertion.

      • that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.

    7. Yes.

The neighborhood

Derived

affirmative action, affirmative defense, affirmatively, affirmativeness, affirmative pregnant, affirmative resolution, affirmative waste, affirmativism, affirmativist, apefirmative action, disaffirmative, nonaffirmative, trans-affirmative

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at affirmative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at affirmative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at affirmative

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA