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supportive

Syllables: sup·por·tive/səˈpɔːtɪv/US/səˈpɔɹtɪv/

supportive adjective: providing support.

Adjective

supportive (comparative more supportive, superlative most supportive)

  1. Providing support.
    • I had a very supportive coach who helped me.
    • But the most seismic change is the shift to being supportive of open access. In practice, most of the industry has collectively opposed this for the past 25 years. The Department for Transport has been particularly hostile, seeing it as little more than cherry-picking.2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3
    Synonyms:
    supportful
    Antonyms:
    unsupportive

supportive meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

supportive in Tamil

ஆதரவாக

supportive in Urdu

حامی

supportive in Malayalam

sympathetic, encouraging, caring
പിന്തുണയ്ക്കുന്ന, പിന്താങ്ങുന്ന, തുണ നല്കുന്ന, ഒത്താശ ചെയ്യുന്ന, പ്രോത്സാഹിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, സഹായിക്കുന്ന
favourable to, favour of, pro
അനുകൂലമായ, അനുകൂലിക്കുന്ന, അനുകൂലനിലപാടുള്ള, അനുഭാവമുള്ള, മാനസികമായി അനുകൂലിക്കുന്ന, ഏകീയ

Synonyms of supportive

Antonyms

Forms of supportive

comparativemore supportive
superlativemost supportive

Origin of supportive

From support + -ive.

Words formed from supportive

Questions about supportive

What does supportive mean?
Supportive means providing support.
What is supportive in Tamil?
Supportive in Tamil is ஆதரவாக. See Supportive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is supportive?
Supportive is an adjective.
How do you pronounce supportive?
Supportive is pronounced /səˈpɔɹtɪv/ (US).

Words near supportive in the dictionary

  1. supporting actors
  2. supporting actress
  3. supporting actresses
  4. supportingly
  5. supportings
  6. supportive
  7. supportively
  8. supportiveness
  9. supportless
  10. supportlessly
  11. supportlessness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: supportive (page history and authors); supportive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supportive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supportive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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