CONFIRMATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confirmatory mean? 

• CONFIRMATORY (adjective)
  The adjective CONFIRMATORY has 1 sense:

1. serving to support or corroborate

  Familiarity information: CONFIRMATORY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIRMATORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to support or corroborate

Synonyms:

collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying

Context example:

collateral evidence

Similar:

supportive (furnishing support or assistance)

Derivation:

confirm (establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts)

confirm (strengthen or make more firm)

 Context examples 

The process by which specimens are sent to a central lab for confirmatory analysis using standardized methods and result criteria in order to minimize inter-reviewer differences thereby improving the accuracy of pathology data.

(Central Pathology Review, NCI Thesaurus)

Traddles came to my assistance with a confirmatory murmur.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)