Something affirmative expresses agreement or approval, like the affirmative nod your mother gives you when you ask to be excused from the dinner table. A formal way of saying "Yes" is "Affirmative!"
Confirmative; ratifying;
Noun
a reply of affirmation; "he answered in the affirmative"
Adjective
affirming or giving assent; "an affirmative decision"; "affirmative votes"; "an affirmative nod"; "an affirmatory gesture"
Adjective S.
supporting a policy or attitude etc; "an affirmative argument"
Adjective S.
expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook"
a.
Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of
common law.
a.
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.
a.
Positive; dogmatic.
a.
Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a
proposition.
a.
Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to
be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.
n.
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.
n.
A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as,
yes, that is so, etc.
Affirmative
Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito.4.
Affirmative
Whether there are such beings or not, 't is sufficient for my purpose that many have believed the affirmative.2.
Confirmative; ratifying;
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
Usage Examples
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
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Other Usage ExamplesAffirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
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