Affirmative vs Committed - What's the difference?
affirmative | committed |
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:
(commit)
Obligated by a pledge to some course of action.
showing commitment.
Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.
(rhetoric) Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.
As adjectives the difference between affirmative and committed
is that affirmative is pertaining to truth; asserting that something is ; affirming while committed is obligated by a pledge to some course of action.As a noun affirmative
is yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.As a verb committed is
(commit).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.