Word Meanings - AFFIRM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review. 2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Additional info about word: AFFIRM

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review. 2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Acts xxv. 19. (more info) 1. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; esp. ,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFIRM)

• Allege
• Declare
• affirm
• assert
• asseverate
• depose
• plead
• cite
• quote
• assign
• advance
• maintain
• say
• Assert
• Asseverate
• declare
• pronounce
• statement
• avow
• avouch
• allege
• protest
• claim
• Attest
• Vouch
• aver
• certify
• witness
• vouch for
• testify
• evidence
• support
• confirm
• suggest
• prove
• involve
• demonstrate
• establish
• imply
• bespeak
• Pronounce
• Articulate
• utter
• propound
• deliver
• enunciate
• express
• Protest
• Expostulate
• remonstrate
• denounce
• repudiate
• deprecate
• assure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFIRM)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Drop
• betray
• discontinue
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• Recal
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to AFFIRM)

• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.