supportive
Other forms: supportively
To be supportive is to give help or assistance, or to hold something or someone up. If your parents are supportive of your dreams to become a chef, they might enroll you in cooking classes.
Supportive is a snuggly word. Anything that supports you, or embraces you and holds you up is supportive. It can be physically supportive, like a girdle that holds your belly in, or emotionally supportive like a loving family or solid network of friends. A parent paying for a child's college bills is supportive financially. Things can be supportive, too — posts holding up a building are supportive. Being supportive is a good thing.
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furnishing support or assistance“a supportive family network”“his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer”synonyms:positivecharacterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.certificatoryserving to certify or endorse authoritativelycollateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifyingserving to support or corroboratedemonstrative ofserving to prove or demonstrateantonyms:unsupportivenot furnishing support or assistancenegativecharacterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
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