adj.
- agreeing with or consenting to a statement or request.
▸Grammar & Logic stating that a fact is so. Contrasted with negative and interrogative.
- denoting proposed legislation which must receive an affirmative parliamentary vote before it can come into force.
n.
an affirmative statement or word.
▸Logic a statement asserting that something is true of the subject of a proposition.
exclam.
chiefly N. Amer. yes.
Phrase
- in the affirmative
so as to accept or agree to a statement or request.
Derivative
Etymology
ME (in the sense ‘assertive, positive’): via OFr. from late L. affirmativus, from affirmare (see affirm).
