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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective supportive has 1 sense

• supportive(a = adj.all) Array - furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"
Derived forms verb support₈, verb support₃, verb support₁
Antonym: unsupportive

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

supportive

assuring, auspicious, bearing, bolstering, bracing, bright with promise, burdened, buttressing, carrying, cheering, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, consolatory, consoling, corroborating, corroborative, corroboratory, encouraging, favorable, full of promise, heartening, helpful, holding, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, looking up, maintaining, of good comfort, of promise, pregnant of good, promising, propitious, propping, reassuring, relieving, shoring, substantiating, supporting, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, sympathetic, understanding, upholding, verificative, verifying

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