Usually means: Confirming, agreeing, or saying yes.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word Affirmative:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmative: Merriam-Webster
  2. affirmative, the affirmative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affirmative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affirmative, the affirmative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affirmative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affirmative, affirmative: Wordnik
  7. affirmative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affirmative: Wiktionary
  9. affirmative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affirmative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affirmative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. affirmative: Dictionary.com
  13. affirmative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Affirmative (policy debate), Affirmative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Affirmative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. affirmative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. affirmative: Rhymezone
  18. Affirmative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. affirmative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. affirmative: FreeDictionary.org
  21. affirmative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. affirmative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. affirmative: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. affirmative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. affirmative: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. affirmative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affirmative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. affirmative: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. affirmative: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affirmative: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (affirmative)

▸ adjective:  pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
▸ adjective:  pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
▸ adjective:  positive
▸ adjective:  Confirmative; ratifying.
▸ adjective:  Dogmatic.
▸ adjective:  (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
▸ adjective:  (algebra) positive; not negative
▸ noun:  Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
▸ noun:  (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An assertion.

Similar:
affirmatory, assentient, concessive, agreeing, pro, favorable, optimistic, positive, assenting, conceding, more...

Opposite:
negative, denial, refusal, rejection, nay

Types:
negative, negative-positive, negative-negative, more...

Phrases:
affirmative action, the affirmative, affirmative defense, affirmative defenses, affirmative obligation, more...

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universal, particular, more, simple, negative, first, emphatic, second, unqualified, strong, qualified

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Similar:
affirmatory, assentient, concessive, agreeing, pro, favorable, optimistic, positive, assenting, conceding, more...

Opposite:
negative, denial, refusal, rejection, nay

Types:
negative, negative-positive, negative-negative, more...

Phrases:
affirmative action, the affirmative, affirmative defense, affirmative defenses, affirmative obligation, affirmative relief, universal affirmative, affirmative proposition, particular affirmative, more...

Adjectives:
universal, particular, more, simple, negative, first, emphatic, second, unqualified, strong, qualified

Colors:
    green,     blue,     gold,     yellow,     orange, more...



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