Acceptable vs Affirmative - What's the difference?
acceptable | affirmative |
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable'' present, one ''acceptable to us.
Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
pertaining to truth; asserting that something is ; affirming
pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
positive
Confirmative; ratifying.
dogmatic
* Berkeley
(logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
(algebra) positive; not negative
Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
(grammatical terminology) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
(obsolete) An assertion.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
As adjectives the difference between acceptable and affirmative
is that acceptable is capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable'' present, one ''acceptable to us while affirmative is pertaining to truth; asserting that something is ; affirming.As a noun affirmative is
yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.acceptable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* unacceptable * inacceptableDerived terms
* acceptableness * acceptablyExternal links
* * * ----affirmative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an affirmative answer
- an affirmative vote
- an act affirmative of common law
- Lysicles was a little disconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito.
Derived terms
* affirmative actionNoun
(en noun)- That's an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters.
- 10-4 good buddy. That's an affirmative - the tractor trailer is in the ditch at the side of the highway.
- that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.
