If you reply to a question in the affirmative, you say `yes' or make a gesture that means `yes'. He asked me if I was ready. I answered in the affirmative
An affirmative word or gesture indicates that you agree with what someone has said or that the answer to a question is `yes'. Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer negative + affirmatively af·firma·tive·ly `Is that clear?' Bob nodded his head affirmatively
That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative
That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote