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unsupportive

unsupportive adjective: not supportive.

Adjective

unsupportive (comparative more unsupportive, superlative most unsupportive)

  1. Not supportive.
    • When college campuses closed in March because of the pandemic, having to return home to an unsupportive space was not a safe option for some students.2020 June 29, Misha Valencia, “The Challenges of the Pandemic for Queer Youth”, in The New York Times

Forms of unsupportive

comparativemore unsupportive
superlativemost unsupportive

Origin of unsupportive

From un- + supportive.

Words formed from unsupportive

Questions about unsupportive

What does unsupportive mean?
Unsupportive means not supportive.
What part of speech is unsupportive?
Unsupportive is an adjective.

Words near unsupportive in the dictionary

  1. unsupportably
  2. unsupported
  3. unsupportedly
  4. unsupportedness
  5. unsupporting
  6. unsupportive
  7. unsupportively
  8. unsupportiveness
  9. unsupposable
  10. unsupposed
  11. unsuppress

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