verb (used with object)
- to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- to acknowledge with definite assurance: Did the hotel confirm our room reservation?
- to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- to make firm or more firm; add strength to; settle or establish firmly: Their support confirmed my determination to run for mayor.
- to strengthen (a person) in habit, resolution, opinion, etc.: The accident confirmed him in his fear of driving.
- to administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
adjective
- made certain as to truth, accuracy, validity, availability, etc.: confirmed reports of new fighting at the front; confirmed reservations on the three o’clock flight to Denver.
- settled; ratified.
- firmly established in a habit or condition; inveterate: a confirmed bachelor.
- given additional determination; made resolute.
- having received the religious rite of confirmation.
adjective
- not confirmed; uncorroboratedunconfirmed reports
verb (tr)
- (may take a clause as object) to prove to be true or valid; corroborate; verify
- (may take a clause as object) to assert for a second or further time, so as to make more definitehe confirmed that he would appear in court
- to strengthen or make more firmhis story confirmed my doubts
- to make valid by a formal act or agreement; ratify
- to administer the rite of confirmation to
adjective
- (prenominal) long-established in a habit, way of life, etca confirmed bachelor
- having received the rite of confirmation
- (of a disease) another word for chronic
adj.1560s, “not having received the rite of confirmation,” from un- (1) “not” + confirmed. Meaning “not supported by further evidence” is attested from 1670s. v.mid-13c., confirmyn “to ratify,” from Old French confermer (13c., Modern French confirmer) “strengthen, establish, consolidate; affirm by proof or evidence; anoint (a king),” from Latin confirmare “make firm, strengthen, establish,” from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + firmare “to strengthen,” from firmus (see firm (adj.)). Related: Confirmative; confirmatory. adj.late 14c., of diseases, “firmly established,” past participle adjective from confirm. Of persons and their habits, from 1826.