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Antonyms for affirmative
əˈfɜr mə tɪvaf·fir·ma·tive

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  1. affirmativeadjective

    a reply of affirmation

    "he answered in the affirmative"

    Antonyms:
    negative, dissentient, dissenting(a), unfavourable, neutral, dissident, unfavorable

  2. affirmative, affirmatoryadjective

    affirming or giving assent

    "an affirmative decision"; "affirmative votes"

    Antonyms:
    negative, dissident, neutral, unfavorable, dissentient, dissenting(a), unfavourable

    Synonyms:
    approving, approbative, approbatory, affirmatory, plausive, optimistic

  3. affirmative, optimisticadjective

    expecting the best

    "an affirmative outlook"

    Antonyms:
    negative, unfavourable, dissident, unfavorable, dissentient, dissenting(a), neutral

    Synonyms:
    approving, approbative, approbatory, affirmatory, plausive, optimistic

  4. approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausiveadjective

    expressing or manifesting praise or approval

    "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod"

    Antonyms:
    negative, unfavourable, dissentient, dissident, neutral, dissenting(a), unfavorable

    Synonyms:
    approving, approbatory, plausive, affirmatory, optimistic, approbative

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 2 votes

  1. affirmativeadjective

    Synonyms:
    confirmative, ratifying, approving

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  1. nuh-uh

    Submitted by acronimous on July 17, 2023  

How to use affirmative in a sentence?

  1. Douglas Macgregor:

    What we call diversity -- in the extreme. In other words, affirmative action programs for every conceivable category of humanity that the left wants to come up with, whether it's someone who is a gender neutral or homosexual or whatever else, the left loves to put us into categories and push this. And the people that went along with it and said,' sure, let's put women into the combat forces. Let's have women everywhere.' Let's do whatever we want to do. We're going to create this brave new world where everyone is the same. There are no differences, nothing matters. So I think that's where we are.

  2. Michele Siqueiros:

    It's very clear that there is not enough capacity at all the elite universities combined, i have always said to my friends that focusing just on affirmative action... is not a solution.

  3. Malcolm Stewart:

    This is a case about what the government has to subsidize … it’s not a case about the government either imposing affirmative restraints on religion or denying generally applicable benefits to persons based on religious exercise outside the program.

  4. Lewis Baldwin:

    Democratic Socialist was not talking about race-based affirmative action. Democratic Socialist was concerned about need-based affirmative action, if you look at Democratic Socialist call for an economic bill of rights, Democratic Socialist was talking about affirmative action that benefited all people that were poor and deprived.

  5. Paul Smith:

    Abortion, gun rights and affirmative action would be monumental. That said, there, in those cases, particularly in the abortion case and in the gun case, there are ways they could decide the more broadly or more narrowly, so part of the blockbuster nature of the term will depend on whether they really go very far and say, overrule Roe v. Wade, or simply narrow it in the abortion case.

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#5908neutral
#11586affirmative
#27323unfavorable
#34464dissident
#51861unfavourable

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