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"an affirmative decision" "affirmative votes"adjectiveaffirming or giving assent
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"an affirmative outlook"adjectiveexpecting the best
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"an affirmative nod"adjectiveexpressing or manifesting praise or approval
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"he answered in the affirmative"nouna reply of affirmationOpposite:type of:
Definition that contains affirmative
- for One who takes, or that which is said on, the affirmative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
- yes an affirmative
- answer the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- accept give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- nor A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.
- yea an affirmative
- consent give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- affirmatively in an affirmative manner
- meiosis understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
- cataphatism the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image')