- positive, confirming - indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test"
- collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying - serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
Antonym: unsupportive (indirect, via supportive)
- confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun confirmation2, noun confirmation1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- confirm, reassert - strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account"
--2 is one way to affirm
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun confirmation2, noun confirmation1
They confirm that there was a traffic accident
- confirm - make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!"
--3 is one way to strengthen, beef up, fortify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- confirm - as of a person to a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"
--4 is one way to approve, O.K., okay, sanction
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun confirmation3
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- confirm - administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"
--5 is one way to covenant
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- confirm - as of a person to a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense"