supportive

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English support

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English supportive

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

• myelosupportive
• neurosupportive
• nonsupportive
• supportively
• supportiveness
• unsupportive

Translations

providing support

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 支持的 (zhīchí de) (usually used as a verb + object, i.e. the supporter)

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