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supportive

[suh-pawr-tiv, -pohr-]

adjective

  1. giving support.

  2. providing sympathy or encouragement.

    His family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer.

  3. providing additional help, information, etc.; auxiliary.

    manufacturers of supportive materials.

  4. Medicine/Medical.helping to maintain a normal physiological balance, as by the intravenous administration of required nutriment.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • supportiveness noun
  • nonsupportive adjective
  • unsupportive adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of supportive1

First recorded in 1585–95; support + -ive
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And attending the protest provided additional comfort, because it showed the children that they were part of a supportive community.

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Matt Navarra, a social media consultant, tells the BBC fans expect to see social signals of closeness such as mutual follows, birthday posts and supportive comments.

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Iran's proxy forces - Hamas and Hezbollah – may be much diminished but its supportive militias in Iraq remain armed and intact.

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But one supportive Labour MP said Kendall's protections sounded sensible.

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She says his mainstream school have been supportive, but her son needs more support than they can offer without an EHCP.

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