affirmatively

1. 1.

   in an affirmative manner

Questions about affirmatively

What does affirmatively mean?

affirmatively means "in an affirmative manner".

How many syllables are in affirmatively?

affirmatively has 5 syllables: af-fir-mati-ve-ly. The stress falls on "fir". In IPA it is /əˈfɝmətɪvli/.

Is affirmatively a common word?

affirmatively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.