affirm

Other forms of affirm

past tense

affirmed·

present participle

affirming·

third person

affirms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affirm

What does affirm mean?

affirm means "establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affirm?

affirm has 2 syllables: af-firm. The stress falls on "firm". In IPA it is /əˈfɝm/.

What is another word for affirm?

Close synonyms include confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of affirm?

The recorded antonyms are negate.

Is affirm a common word?

affirm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with affirm?

5 words rhyme with affirm. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.