confirmedcon‧firmed /kənˈfɜːmd $ -ɜːr-/ adjective - But he was a confirmed teetotaller.
- Teachers are not required to give a confirmed level for a pupil at any one moment during the key stage.
- The confirmed hard left on the executive is now reduced to two: Tony Benn, and Dennis Skinner.
- The Commissioner of Inland Revenue made and confirmed assessments on the taxpayer for those years in respect of the profits from sub-licensing the films.
► confirmed bachelor Gerald was 38, and a confirmed bachelor (=a man who has decided that he will never marry). ► a confirmed bachelor/atheist/vegetarian etc- There a hybrid service takes place, to which even a confirmed atheist could hardly object.
nounconfirmationadjectiveconfirmed ≠ unconfirmedverbconfirm