Meanings
comparative more supportive · superlative most supportive
- Providing support.
I had a very supportive coach who helped me.
1 more example
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 hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.
2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3Synonyms: supportful · Antonyms: unsupportive
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefurnishing support or assistance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Dutch ondersteunend, behulpzaam
- ondersteunendproviding support
- behulpzaamproviding support
Esperanto helpema
- helpemaproviding support
Finnish kannustava, tukea antava
- kannustavaproviding support
- tukea antavaproviding support
- valmis tukemaanproviding support
French d'un grand soutien
- d'un grand soutienproviding support
German unterstützend, stützend
- unterstützendproviding support
- stützendproviding support
- förderlichproviding support
Hebrew תומך, תומכת
- תומךproviding support
- תומכתproviding support
Irish coinneálach
- coinneálachproviding support
Italian collaborativo
- collaborativoproviding support
Māori taupuhipuhi
- taupuhipuhiproviding support
Polish wspierający
- wspierającyproviding support
Russian благоскло́нный, благоприя́тный
- благоскло́нный (blagosklónnyj)providing support
- благоприя́тный (blagoprijátnyj)providing support
- забо́тливый (zabótlivyj)providing support
- подде́рживающий (poddérživajuščij)providing support
Spanish alentador, de apoyo
- alentadorproviding support
- de apoyoproviding support
Swedish stöttande
- stöttandeproviding support
Cite this entry
supportive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supportive
“supportive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supportive. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supportive,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supportive.
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