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How to pronounce “affirmative”
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Pronunciation guide for affirmative
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of affirmative with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- TED Talks Daily Book Club: Talk to Me
more affirmative vision or affirmative
- Definition summary
- pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce affirmative
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Talk to Me

more affirmative vision or affirmative
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “affirmative”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
- pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
- positive
- Confirmative; ratifying.
- Dogmatic.
- (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- (algebra) positive; not negative
- [Noun]
- Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
- (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
- (obsolete) An assertion.
- [Interjection]
- Yes.
- (military, especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.
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Similar Sounds
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