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    af·firm·a·tive
    [əˈfərmədiv]
    adjective
    affirmative (adjective)
    1. agreeing with or consenting to a statement or request:
      "an affirmative answer"
      • (of a vote) expressing approval or agreement.
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        active and explicit or unequivocal:
        "they have an affirmative duty to stop crime in their buildings"
    2. supportive, hopeful, or encouraging:
      "the family is usually a source of encouragement from which affirmative influences come"
    3. grammar
      logic
      stating that a fact is so; making an assertion. Contrasted with negative and interrogative.
      "affirmative sentences"
    noun
    affirmative (noun) · affirmatives (plural noun) · the affirmative (noun)
    1. a statement of agreement with or consent to an assertion or request:
      "he accepted her reply as an affirmative"
      • (the affirmative)
        a position of agreement or confirmation:
        "his answer veered toward the affirmative"
    2. grammar
      a word or particle used in making assertions.
      • logic
        a statement asserting that something is true of the subject of a proposition.
    exclamation
    NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
    1. expressing agreement with a statement or request; yes.
    Origin
    late Middle English (in the sense ‘assertive, positive’): via Old French from late Latin affirmativus, from affirmare ‘assert’ (see affirm).
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