supportive

English

Etymology

From support +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈpɔɹtɪv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈpɔːtɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /səˈpo(ː)ɹtɪv/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /səˈpoətɪv/
• Hyphenation: sup‧por‧tive

Adjective

supportive (comparative more supportive, superlative most supportive)

1. Providing support.

   Antonym: unsupportive

   I had a very supportive coach who helped me.

   • 2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:

     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.

Synonyms

• supportful

Derived terms

• unsupportive

Translations

providing support

• Chinese: 支持的

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: ondersteunend (nl), behulpzaam (nl)
• Esperanto: helpema
• Finnish: kannustava (fi), tukea antava
• French: d’un grand soutien
• German: unterstützend (de), stützend (de), förderlich (de)
• Hebrew: תומך m, תומכת f
• Irish: coinneálach
• Italian: collaborativo (it)
• Maori: taupuhipuhi
• Polish: wspierający
• Russian: благоскло́нный (ru) (blagosklónnyj), благоприя́тный (ru) (blagoprijátnyj), забо́тливый (ru) (zabótlivyj), подде́рживающий (ru) (poddérživajuščij)
• Spanish: alentador (es), de apoyo
• Swedish: stöttande (sv)