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supporting

Syllables: sup·port·ingUK/səˈpɔːtɪŋ//səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/

supporting adjective: that supports. Also the present participle and gerund of support.

Adjective

supporting (comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

  1. That supports.

Noun

supporting (plural supportings)

  1. That which supports something else; a support.
    • But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252
    • […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

Also used as

supporting is also the present participle and gerund of support.

supporting meaning in Nepali

supporting in Nepali

समर्थन गर्दै

Forms of supporting

Adjective
comparativemore supporting
superlativemost supporting
Noun
pluralsupportings

Words formed from supporting

Phrases with supporting

Words that rhyme with supporting

Questions about supporting

What does supporting mean?
Supporting means that supports.
What is supporting in Nepali?
Supporting in Nepali is समर्थन गर्दै. See Supporting meaning in Nepali.
What part of speech is supporting?
Supporting can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce supporting?
Supporting is pronounced /səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/ (US).

Words near supporting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supporting (page history and authors); supporting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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