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Affirmative vs Emphatic - What's the difference?

affirmative | emphatic | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between affirmative and emphatic

is that affirmative is pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming while emphatic is characterized by emphasis.

As nouns the difference between affirmative and emphatic

is that affirmative is yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance while emphatic is an emphatic consonant.

affirmative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • pertaining to truth; asserting that something is ; affirming
    • an affirmative answer
  • pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
  • positive
    • an affirmative vote
  • Confirmative; ratifying.
    • an act affirmative of common law
  • dogmatic
  • * Berkeley
    • Lysicles was a little disconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito.
  • (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
  • (algebra) positive; not negative

    • Derived terms

    * affirmative action

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
    • 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.
  • (grammatical terminology) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
  • (obsolete) An assertion.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
    • that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.

    See also

    * affirmative sentence ----

    emphatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * emphatick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by emphasis.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.}}
  • Stated with conviction.
    • He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
  • belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to
  • (phonology) of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages.

    • Derived terms

    * emphatically

    Related terms

    * emphasis * emphasise, emphasize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonology) an emphatic consonant

    • See also

    * phatic

    Anagrams

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