Word.ws English Dictionary

supportful

supportful adjective: providing support; supportive.

Adjective

supportful (comparative more supportful, superlative most supportful)

  1. Providing support; supportive.
    • I can say that our organization is supportful of the actions on behalf of many farm groups to stop the initiatives that are being led by the current administration, to remove article 22 and article 11 at the GATT talks.1990, Formulation of the 1990 Farm Bill
    • Lastly, I would like to extend my most serious gratitude to my very supportful family.1994, Quality of Care in After School Programs
  2. (archaic) Abounding with support.
    • proud of their supportful wings[1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new...

Forms of supportful

comparativemore supportful
superlativemost supportful

Origin of supportful

From support + -ful.

Questions about supportful

What does supportful mean?
Supportful means providing support; supportive.
What part of speech is supportful?
Supportful is an adjective.

Words near supportful in the dictionary

  1. supportedst
  2. supporter
  3. supporters
  4. supportest
  5. supporteth
  6. supportful
  7. supporting
  8. supporting actor
  9. supporting actors
  10. supporting actress
  11. supporting actresses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: supportful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “supportful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/supportful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.