- affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.
- expressing agreement or consent; assenting: an affirmative reply.
- positive; not negative.
- noting a proposition in which a property of a subject is affirmed, as “All men are happy.”
- something that affirms or asserts; a positive statement or proposition; affirmation.
- a reply indicating assent, as Yes or I do.
- a manner or mode that indicates assent: a reply in the affirmative.
- the side, as in a debate, that affirms or defends a statement that the opposite side denies or attacks: to speak for the affirmative.
- (used to indicate agreement, assent, etc.): “Is this the right way to Lake George?” “Affirmative.”
- confirming or asserting something as true or valid
- indicating agreement or assent
- logic
- (of a categorial proposition) affirming the satisfaction by the subject of the predicate, as in all birds have feathers; some men are married
- not containing negation
- a positive assertion
- a word or phrase stating agreement or assent, such as yes (esp in the phrase answer in the affirmative)
- an affirmative proposition
- the side in a debate that supports the proposition
- a signal codeword used to express assent or confirmation
