Usually means: Confirming, agreeing, or saying yes.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word affirmative:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. affirmative: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  21. affirmative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. affirmative: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. affirmative: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. affirmative: Merriam-Webster.com

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

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. 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

(Note: See affirmatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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