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life-affirming

life-affirming adjective: having a positive and uplifting effect.

Adjective

life-affirming (comparative more life-affirming, superlative most life-affirming)

  1. Having a positive and uplifting effect.
    • The film was an utterly life-affirming experience.
    • He thinks of giving to charity as a life-affirming act.
  2. Appearing to have an optimistic quality.
    • She doesn't strike me as a particularly life-affirming person.
    • These profit estimates for the next quarter don't look very life-affirming.

Forms of life-affirming

comparativemore life-affirming
superlativemost life-affirming

Origin of life-affirming

Calque of French affirmation de la vie.

Questions about life-affirming

What does life-affirming mean?
Life-affirming means having a positive and uplifting effect.
What part of speech is life-affirming?
Life-affirming is an adjective.

Words near life-affirming in the dictionary

  1. life's lesson
  2. life's too short
  3. life's work
  4. life's works
  5. life, prosperity, health
  6. life-affirming
  7. life-and-death
  8. life-arrow
  9. life-arrows
  10. life-bearing
  11. life-blood

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