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Another word for affirmative

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Adjective

  1. Giving assent

    See also:

    affirm

  2. Of a constructive nature

    See also:

    help

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Another word for affirmative

Modifier
  1. Antonyms:

Idioms:

    in the affirmative

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Sentence Examples

  • If the answer was in the affirmative, a day was fixed for the voting in the eighth prytany.

  • In a plebiscite taken on the subject of the imperial title and the law of succession, there were 3,5 72, 3 2 9 affirmative votes and only 2569 negatives.

  • At his affirmative nod, she hurried to her room and changed into jeans and sneakers before he could change his mind.

  • - Aristotle, by distinguishing affirmative and negative, particular and universal, made the fourfold classification of judgments, A, E, I and 0, the foundation both of opposition and of inference.

  • It was decided in the affirmative previous to his return; but he approved with astonishing eloquence, and thereafter was ever in the front rank in maintaining intercommunication between all churches holding the main doctrines of the Reformation.

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