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supportive
[ suh-pawr-tiv, -pohr- ]
adjective
- giving support.
- providing sympathy or encouragement:
His family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer.
- providing additional help, information, etc.; auxiliary:
manufacturers of supportive materials.
- Medicine/Medical. helping to maintain a normal physiological balance, as by the intravenous administration of required nutriment.
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Other Words From
- sup·portive·ness noun
- nonsup·portive adjective
- unsup·portive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of supportive1
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Example Sentences
Yes, some people have been inconvenienced by traffic delays or annoyed by supportive athletes.
But the scene outside Woodhull Hospital wasn't entirely supportive.
“He is ‘an independent socialist,’” said one organizer supportive of Warren.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), a leading voice on police demilitarization, was supportive of the White House announcement.
Many historians have leveled criticism at the Code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.
This may in part be due to the nature of the insulating and supportive apparatus.
The police and courts should have well-established and mutually supportive relationships with the schools.
The supportive appliance is kept in position for ten days or two weeks.
It is tough on criminals and supportive of police, and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now.
Some may be conducting fibrils, but it is hard to distinguish these from supportive.
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