supportive

Providing support.

Adjective

  1. Providing support.
    • I had a very supportive coach who helped me.
    • But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly...

    Antonyms: unsupportive

Origin

Etymology tree English support Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English supportive From support + -ive.

Forms

more supportive most supportive

Synonyms

supportful

Derived

myelosupportive neurosupportive nonsupportive supportively supportiveness unsupportive