Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

confirmatory

/kənˈfɝ.məˌtoɹ.i/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.26 in modern English

Syllables: con-fir-ma-to-ry
IPA: /kənˈfɝ.məˌtoɹ.i/

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving to confirm something.

Example Sentences

"I replied, as I usually did whenever I had a chance, that nobody had ever loved anybody else as I loved Dora. Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur."
""Do you come to me, Master-at-arms, with so foggy a tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge against him. […]""
"1986, Mark S. Gold and A.L.C. Pottash, Diagnostic and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry, New York and London: Plenum Medical Book Company, Chapter 3, p. 43, https://books.google.ca/books?id=KGSxQ_-94J8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The main indication for performing the DST is for the confirmation of suspected major depression. A positive test is excellent confirmatory evidence of the diagnosis."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kənˈfɝ.məˌtoɹ.i/
British English: /kənˈfɜː.mə.tə.ɹi/

Inflected Forms

more confirmatory (comparative) most confirmatory (superlative)

Derived Forms

confirmatorily disconfirmatory nonconfirmatory

Synonyms

collateral confirmative confirming corroborative corroboratory substantiating substantiative validating validatory verificatory verifying

Questions

How do you pronounce confirmatory?: The recorded pronunciation is /kənˈfɝ.məˌtoɹ.i/.
What does confirmatory mean?: Serving to confirm something.

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