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supportive

DEFINITIONS OF: supportive

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adj furnishing support or assistance

“a supportive family network”
“his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer”
Synonyms
positive
characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary
furnishing added support
accessary, accessory
aiding and abetting in a crime
certificatory
serving to certify or endorse authoritatively
collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
serving to support or corroborate
demonstrative of
serving to prove or demonstrate
encouraging, supporting
furnishing support and encouragement
Antonyms:
unsupportive
not furnishing support or assistance
negative
characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
confounding, contradictory
that confounds or contradicts or confuses
disconfirming, invalidating
establishing as invalid or untrue
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