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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airmail | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airpost |
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(noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft | - |
(verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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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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impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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(noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
(noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
(noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
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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repairman | (noun) a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | Synonyms: maintenance man, service man |
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skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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(verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
skirmisher | (noun) someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) | - |
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squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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(verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
squirmer | (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: wiggler, wriggler |
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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 |