English > supportive: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Furnishing support or assistance. |
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| Examples | - "a supportive family network"
- "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"
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| Narrower | accessary, accessory | Aiding and abetting in a crime |
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| accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary | Furnishing added support |
| certificatory | Serving to certify or endorse authoritatively |
| collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying | Serving to support or corroborate / corroborate / corroborate |
| demonstrative of | Serving to prove or demonstrate |
| encouraging, supporting | Furnishing support and encouragement |
| See also | positive | Characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. |
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| Opposite | unsupportive | not furnishing support or assistance |
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| Spanish | soportador |
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| Verbs | support | argue or speak in defense / defense of |
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| support | give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to |
| support | be behind |
