AFFIRMING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

affirming

verb

present participle of affirm

as in insisting

to state as a fact usually forcefully unwilling to affirm without further study that the painting is an original Rembrandt

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Relevance

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as in declaring

to state clearly and strongly our business partner affirmed his trust in us, and we in turn promised not to let him down

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Recent Examples of affirming As courts weigh transgender military bans and states restrict gender-affirming care, some corporations retreat from sponsorship while local businesses step up to keep hometown Pride celebrations funded and visible. —

Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2026 Roughly 1,900 active-duty members of the military received gender-affirming care from the Defense Department between January 2016 and May 2021, according to a January 2025 report from the Congressional Research Service. —

Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 1 June 2026 This year, Out Leadership added 12 new indicators to gauge the impact of anti-LGBTQ+ policies such as bathroom access restrictions, pronoun and name-use prohibitions and restrictions on adult gender-affirming care, Sears said. —

Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 1 June 2026 Instead, conversations often function as affirming spaces rather than investigative ones. —

Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 Further, the word kliba is not necessarily an affirming term in the Mahabharata since it is used derisively, as almost a slur, by men to ridicule and question the masculinity of other men who act cowardly. —

Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026 Wednesday’s video makes no mention of the gender-affirming care language. —

Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2026 Consequently, only about 21 senior living communities in the country are affirming to LGBTQ identities, according to SAGE, a national advocacy organization for LGBTQ seniors. —

Jessica Blough, CNN Money, 22 May 2026 The Colorado hospital’s TRUE Center, which focuses on gender-affirming care, is one of the largest programs in the country and the only comprehensive care center in the Rocky Mountain region, according to the lawsuit. —

ABC News, 19 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for affirming

Verb

Workday has denied the claims, insisting that hiring decisions are made by humans, and that AI is only used to compare a candidate’s qualifications with those listed in a job posting.

— Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Forgive my cynicism, but the owners created this unfortunate landscape, insisting the sport’s competitive balance is out of whack when the standings, again, indicate otherwise.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 27 May 2026