| affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) say yes to | - |
| affirmable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: assertable |
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| affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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| (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
| (noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
| affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
| (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
| affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| confirm | (verb) make more firm | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
| (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: reassert |
| (verb) administer the rite of confirmation to | - |
| (verb) support a person for a position | - |
| confirmable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: falsifiable, verifiable |
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| confirmation | (noun) a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church | - |
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| (noun) a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism | - |
| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, substantiation, verification |
| (noun) information that confirms or verifies | - |
| (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: ratification |
| confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| confirmed | (adjective) having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation | - |
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| (adjective) of persons; not subject to change | - |
| confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| firm | (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: fast, loyal, truehearted |
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| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: fast, immobile |
| (adjective) strong and sure | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) not soft or yielding to pressure | Synonyms: solid |
| (adjective) possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue | - |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) securely established | - |
| (adjective) not subject to revision or change | - |
| (adjective) (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling | - |
| (adjective) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | Synonyms: steady, unfluctuating |
| (noun) the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments | Synonyms: business firm, house |
| (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly |
| (verb) become taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
| (verb) make taut or tauter | Synonyms: tauten |
| firmament | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| firmamental | (adjective) relating to the firmament or upper regions | - |
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| firmly | (adverb) with firmness | Synonyms: hard |
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| (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, steadfastly, unwaveringly |
| (adverb) in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger | Synonyms: securely |
| firmness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: steadiness |
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| (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve |
| (noun) the property of being unyielding to the touch | - |
| (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: soundness |
| firmware | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: microcode |
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| infirm | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) lacking firmness of will or character or purpose | - |
| infirmary | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: hospital |
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| infirmity | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, valetudinarianism |
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| reaffirm | (verb) affirm once again | - |
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| reaffirmation | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reassertion |
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| reconfirm | (verb) confirm again | - |
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| unconfirmed | (adjective) not finally established or settled | - |
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| unfirm | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) not firmly or solidly positioned | Synonyms: unsteady |