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low-support

low-support adjective: requiring a low level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.

Adjective

low-support (comparative more low-support, superlative most low-support)

  1. Requiring a low level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.
    • My part was to help to organise and run the first workshop for low support autistic adults and their parents.2018, Niina Laitila, "Awareness, Acceptance & Appreciation: A Road to Changing Views on Autism in South Africa", thesis submitted to Laurea University of Applied Sciences, page 29
    • While the diagnostic label of Asperger's Syndrome for low-support autistic people was removed from the DSM-5 and has mostly fallen out of favour on Tumblr, some still people still use and identify with that label […]2019, Andrew Kirkconnel, "'Where Everyone Waddles Like Me': An Examination of the Autistic Community on Tumblr", thesis submitted to McMaster University, page 41
    Antonyms:
    high-support

Antonyms of low-support

Forms of low-support

comparativemore low-support
superlativemost low-support

Questions about low-support

What does low-support mean?
Low-support means requiring a low level of assistance to meet one's personal care needs.
What part of speech is low-support?
Low-support is an adjective.

Words near low-support in the dictionary

  1. low-status
  2. low-studded
  3. low-sulfur
  4. low-sulphur
  5. low-sun
  6. low-support
  7. low-surface-brightness galaxies
  8. low-surface-brightness galaxy
  9. low-T
  10. low-tech
  11. low-thoughted

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