affirmatory

1. 1.

   affirming or giving assent

   “an affirmative decision”

   “affirmative votes”

   Synonymsaffirmative

   Similarassentient

Questions about affirmatory

What does affirmatory mean?

affirmatory means "affirming or giving assent".

How many syllables are in affirmatory?

affirmatory has 5 syllables: af-fir-ma-to-ry. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for affirmatory?

Close synonyms include affirmative. 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.

Is affirmatory a common word?

affirmatory 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.