unsupporting

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adjective

That serves no supporting purpose in a structure.

OriginEnglish supporting ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectiveunsupporting (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat serves no supporting purpose in a structure.

    The calculated shearing stress on the adjoining and unsupporting strata...

    1935, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  2. not comparableUnsupportive.

    The table is deliberately confined to three of the factors, namely lack of intellectual ability, unsupporting home background, and personal factors.

    1965, Reginald R Dale, Stephen Griffith, Down Stream: Failure in the Grammar School

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishsupporting
  9. Englishunsupporting

From un- + supporting.

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APA

unsupporting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsupporting

MLA

“unsupporting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsupporting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsupporting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsupporting.

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