different between yup vs affirmative

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
   • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7 (page 147)

     But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...

   • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling (page 278)

     Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.

Synonyms

• yep

Antonyms

• (informal: a yes): nope

Interjection

yup

1. (informal) Yes.

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 448:

     Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]

Anagrams

• Pyu, puy

Catacao

Noun

yup

1. water

References

• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Hyphenation: yup
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)

English

Etymology

From Middle English affirmative, affirmatyve, from Old French affirmatif, from Latin affirmativus, from affirmare (“to assert”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f??m?t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??f?m?t?v/

Adjective

affirmative (comparative more affirmative, superlative most affirmative)

1. pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming

2. pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
3. positive

4. Confirmative; ratifying.

5. dogmatic
   • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher

     Lysicles was a little disconcerted by the affirmative air of Crito.

6. (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
7. (algebra) positive; not negative

Derived terms

• affirmative action
• affirmatively

Translations

Noun

affirmative (plural affirmatives)

1. Yes; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

   Antonym: negative

2. (grammar) An answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
3. (obsolete) An assertion.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:

     that every hare is both male and female, beside the vulgar opinion, was the affirmative of Archelaus, of Plutarch, Philostratus, and many more.

Translations

Interjection

affirmative

1. An elaborate synonym for the word yes.
2. (military, especially radio communications) Yes; true; correct.

See also

• affirmative sentence

References

• affirmative at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fi?.ma.tiv/

Adjective

affirmative

1. feminine singular of affirmatif

German

Adjective

affirmative

1. inflection of affirmativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Adjective

affirm?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of affirm?t?vus