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confirming
DEFINITIONS OF:
confirming
1
adj
serving to support or corroborate
Synonyms:
collateral
,
confirmative
,
confirmatory
,
corroborative
,
corroboratory
,
substantiating
,
substantiative
,
validating
,
validatory
,
verificatory
,
verifying
supportive
furnishing support or assistance
adj
indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
Synonyms:
positive
Gram-positive
(of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method
Antonyms:
disconfirming
,
negative
not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
Gram-negative
(of bacteria) being of or relating to a bacterium that does not retain the violet stain used in Gram's method
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