Affixes And Prefixes

adjective describing or relating to adscription, the act of assigning or attributing something to a particular cause or source

• The adscriptive nature of the contract dictated strict adherence to its terms.
• The adscriptive label on the product indicated its ingredients.
• I don't pay attention to those adscriptive warnings on the packaging.
• Her adscriptive personality traits defined her character.

noun a word or phrase that affirms or confirms something

adjective describing or relating to a statement or action that affirms or confirms something

• The professor used afformative language to emphasize the importance of the research findings.
• She always speaks in an afformative tone when she's trying to make a point.
• I can't stand when he gets all afformative and starts lecturing us.
• The artist's use of color was afformative, drawing attention to the focal point of the painting.