affirmative

1. 1.

   a reply of affirmation

   “he answered in the affirmative”

   Antonymsnegative

   Broaderavowal

   Narroweryesyeadouble negative

Other forms of affirmative

plural

affirmatives·

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 affirmative

What does affirmative mean?

affirmative means "affirming or giving assent". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in affirmative?

affirmative has 4 syllables: af-fir-ma-tive. The stress falls on "fir". In IPA it is /əˈfɝmətɪv/.

What is another word for affirmative?

Close synonyms include affirmatory, optimistic, approving, approbative, approbatory. 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 affirmative?

The recorded antonyms are negative, negative.

Is affirmative a common word?

affirmative is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.