confirmative

Questions about confirmative

What does confirmative mean?

confirmative means "serving to support or corroborate".

How many syllables are in confirmative?

confirmative has 4 syllables: con-fir-ma-tive. The stress falls on "fir".

What is another word for confirmative?

Close synonyms include collateral, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory. 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 confirmative a common word?

confirmative 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.