supportiveadj.

Brit.

/səˈpɔːtɪv/, U.S.

/səˈpɔrdɪv/

Forms: see support v. and -ive suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: support v., -ive suffix.

Etymology: < support v. + -ive suffix. Compare earlier supporting adj.

a. (a) That provides strength by assistance, belief, or tolerance; providing sustenance or resources; sustaining; (b) that provides evidence or authority; confirmatory, corroborative. Cf. supporting adj. 3, 4, 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [adjective]

sustaining?c1425

affirmative?1504

supportable1531

upholding1553

supportive1593

supportful1610

underpropping1614

subjunctive1656

buttressing1672

supportative1803

upholdatory1829

sustenant1874

hand-holding1920

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adjective] > serving to support or confirm

cited?1555

justificative1611

confirmatory1636

confirmative1641

argumentative1642

confirming1661

affirmative1702

supporting1763

supportive1771

justificatory1779

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares Ep. Ded. To the supportiue perpetuating of your canonized reputation, wholie this booke haue I destined.

1689 Thoughts about Justice of Gentlemens Undertaking at York 1 These Laws are not destructive but supportive of one another, and all supportive of Man.

1703 Apol. for Rom. Catholics 5 That these Notions were friendly to our Kings, or so supportive of the Prerogative as was pretended, was what I always doubted of.

1771 J. Shebbeare Authentic Narr. Oppress. Islanders Jersey II. vii. 405 Can the antecedent history of Charles Lempriere and his conspirators, suggest..that they will represent such laws, as are supportive of their power, to be prejudicial to the rights, liberties, and properties of the islanders?

1799 Gen. State Whitehaven Dispensary for Year 1798 7 To the Funds supportive of this Dispensary, as accurately stated in the following Report, it may be here requisite to briefly advert.

1832 Compar. Coincidence Reason & Script. I. viii. 311 The following considerations appear to us powerfully supportive of the justness of the foregoing answer to our fourth and last question.

1871 A. Calkins Opium & Opium-appetite xxvi. 357 The alimentive and supportive power of the plant [sc. coca] was put to the test and in a memorable way at the siege sustained by the city of La Paz in 1781.

1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 49 The architecture was harmonious, and mutually attractive and supportive.

1965 Listener 30 Sept. 501/3 Supportive material, notes by the editor, and letters by other hands are made to fill in the picture.

1972 Science 20 Oct. 229/3 She appears to interpret her findings as supportive of a smaller proportion of genetic variance among blacks than among whites.

1978 G. Vidal Kalki vi. 149 ‘Senator White says that..he's going to call Mr. Kalki, as a witness... Will Mr. Kalki be supportive?’ ‘Hopefully, Kalki is supportive of all of us all of the time and for all time.’

2010 Nelson (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 7 The greatness of our athletes was achieved through their hard work, honesty, perseverance and supportive funding.

b. Medicine. Designating medical treatment that is intended to maintain basic physiological functions (esp. circulation, respiration, and nutrition) rather than to be curative, esp. in supportive care; of or relating to such treatment.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] > alleviating or superficial

palliative?a1425

palliating1621

palliatea1625

palliatory1665

alleviative1770

alleviatory1830

supportive1858

subcurative1917

the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > alleviation

supportation1527

lenition?1541

palliation1543

restriction1599

palliative1656

blandiment1684

supportive care1895

1858 Med. Times & Gaz. 18 Dec. 626/2 By a judicious use of counter-irritants..and a supportive and stimulating dietary and Medical treatment, the restorative powers of nature were enable to prevail.

1895 St. Louis Clinique Nov. 451/2 When once established lobar pneumonia requires but supportive care, looking after the heart, the respiration, the temperature and good nourishment.

1921 Colorado Med. Jan. 11/2 Transfusion has no effect on the course of the disease. Its only benefit is to act temporarily as a supportive measure.

1935 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 29 350/2 His emaciation and malnourished condition did not favour rapid recovery, but with supportive care, the patient was discharged in good condition on the twenty-fifth postoperative day.

1974 L. Thomas in B. Dixon From Creation to Chaos (1993) 260 A new kind of much less ambitious and flamboyant therapy began to emerge, termed supportive treatment, and consisting in large part of plain common sense.

1985 Washington Post 26 Oct. a21/1 Those infants given the black spot by the medical team were provided no more than ‘supportive care’.

2004 J. M. Barry Great Influenza (2005) vi. 250 There is no way of stopping the process of disintegration in the lung once it begins. The only care is supportive, keeping the victim alive until her or she can recover.

c. spec. That provides encouragement or emotional help; giving psychological support.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [adjective]

confortant1450

couraging?1542

advocatory1569

pro1650

encouraging1663

bright1684

undergirding1868

supportive1940

1940 G. Hamilton Theory & Pract. of Social Case Work xiv. 357 The psychiatrist advises a sustaining, or supportive, relationship with the mother.

1954 H. C. Shands in Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry 24 84 It is necessary that the anxious individual have available a supportive pattern of relationship to depend upon through the learning period.

1962 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry xi. 286 This sort of supportive psychotherapy is relevant in every case.

1980 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 12/4 Most American psychotherapists now advertise themselves as ‘supportive’.

2003 Company June 10/3 While she had a supportive boyfriend, mine ran a mile.

2. That prevents falling, sinking, or giving way; that holds something in place; that bears all or part of a weight. Earliest in figurative contexts. Cf. supporting adj. 2.Not now usual in architectural and building contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supporting

bearingOE

portativea1500

supporting1591

shoring1622

stutted1638

supportive1665

firmamental1696

sustinent1704

support1778

sustaining1814

self-supporting1832

1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor ii. 20 Courses of life laborious and supportive; upon which foundation they laid all the superstructure of their after happiness and thrift.

1794 W. Huntington Myst. Godliness in Wks. (1811) XII. 243 This union between a foundation and building is a supportive union, and shews how all the intolerable load was laid on the Saviour.

1840 Mirror of Lit. 22 Aug. 122/1 The mind is a mighty mirror..which, though possessed of no visible area, or supportive platform, bears, oftentimes, bulks of most mountainous dimensions.

1878 S. C. Busey Congenital Occlusion & Dilation of Lymph Channels 136 Weichselbaum suggests another mode of development of the channels. The follicular proliferations become saturated with serum, ‘their cells are forced apart and in part disintegrate, whilst the supportive tissue with its mesh-cavities remains’.

1917 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1 Sept. 713/1 In removing the tonsillar capsule we take out an important supportive structure on which the normality of the physiologic action of the soft palate largely depends.

1973 Black Panther 23 June 6/2 She has vein trouble in her legs for which she wears supportive stockings.

2003 Esquire Aug. 72/1 I have to buy unattractive, mainly supportive bras that come in only white, black or beige.

Derivatives

suˈpportively adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [adverb]

behind1630

supportinglya1664

supportively1932

1932 N.Y. Times 26 June ii. 2 e/3 The North did spring to arms right supportively.

1988 Los Angeles Times 19 June iv. 5/1 The name of the game is people and learning to deal effectively and supportively with people.

2006 C. Hiaasen Nature Girl iii. 35 ‘I thought it was a water snake.’..‘But you weren't afraid!’ his mother said supportively.

suˈpportiveness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > quality of being supportive

supportiveness1946

1862 [implied in: F. T. Palgrave Handbk. Fine Art Coll. in Internat. Exhib. 1862 89 No bird in the heavens..could move with more absolute grace, or give the effect of more entire self-supportiveness.].

1946 Jrnl. Clin. Psychol. 2 61/1 A ‘man-to-man’ regard for the client, characterized (ideally) by the understanding of empathy without the erratic quality of identification or the supportiveness of sympathy.

1968 A. J. Tannenbaum in H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens (1974) i. 4 They have worked with the children..in order to win their confidence and provide supportiveness.

1978 Nature 17 Aug. 698/1 We have also tried to determine whether there was a dorso-ventral pattern of host supportiveness of tumour growth.

2010 J. Brockner Contemp. Look at Organizational Justice vi. 206 Employees with high self-esteem were relatively unaffected by the supportiveness of their peer group.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	supportive
释义	supportiveadj. Brit. /səˈpɔːtɪv/, U.S. /səˈpɔrdɪv/ Forms: see support v. and -ive suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: support v., -ive suffix. Etymology: < support v. + -ive suffix. Compare earlier supporting adj. 1. a. (a) That provides strength by assistance, belief, or tolerance; providing sustenance or resources; sustaining; (b) that provides evidence or authority; confirmatory, corroborative. Cf. supporting adj. 3, 4, 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [adjective] sustaining?c1425 affirmative?1504 supportable1531 upholding1553 supportive1593 supportful1610 underpropping1614 subjunctive1656 buttressing1672 supportative1803 upholdatory1829 sustenant1874 hand-holding1920 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adjective] > serving to support or confirm cited?1555 justificative1611 confirmatory1636 confirmative1641 argumentative1642 confirming1661 affirmative1702 supporting1763 supportive1771 justificatory1779 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares Ep. Ded. To the supportiue perpetuating of your canonized reputation, wholie this booke haue I destined. 1689 Thoughts about Justice of Gentlemens Undertaking at York 1 These Laws are not destructive but supportive of one another, and all supportive of Man. 1703 Apol. for Rom. Catholics 5 That these Notions were friendly to our Kings, or so supportive of the Prerogative as was pretended, was what I always doubted of. 1771 J. Shebbeare Authentic Narr. Oppress. Islanders Jersey II. vii. 405 Can the antecedent history of Charles Lempriere and his conspirators, suggest..that they will represent such laws, as are supportive of their power, to be prejudicial to the rights, liberties, and properties of the islanders? 1799 Gen. State Whitehaven Dispensary for Year 1798 7 To the Funds supportive of this Dispensary, as accurately stated in the following Report, it may be here requisite to briefly advert. 1832 Compar. Coincidence Reason & Script. I. viii. 311 The following considerations appear to us powerfully supportive of the justness of the foregoing answer to our fourth and last question. 1871 A. Calkins Opium & Opium-appetite xxvi. 357 The alimentive and supportive power of the plant [sc. coca] was put to the test and in a memorable way at the siege sustained by the city of La Paz in 1781. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 49 The architecture was harmonious, and mutually attractive and supportive. 1965 Listener 30 Sept. 501/3 Supportive material, notes by the editor, and letters by other hands are made to fill in the picture. 1972 Science 20 Oct. 229/3 She appears to interpret her findings as supportive of a smaller proportion of genetic variance among blacks than among whites. 1978 G. Vidal Kalki vi. 149 ‘Senator White says that..he's going to call Mr. Kalki, as a witness... Will Mr. Kalki be supportive?’ ‘Hopefully, Kalki is supportive of all of us all of the time and for all time.’ 2010 Nelson (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 7 The greatness of our athletes was achieved through their hard work, honesty, perseverance and supportive funding. b. Medicine. Designating medical treatment that is intended to maintain basic physiological functions (esp. circulation, respiration, and nutrition) rather than to be curative, esp. in supportive care; of or relating to such treatment. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] > alleviating or superficial palliative?a1425 palliating1621 palliatea1625 palliatory1665 alleviative1770 alleviatory1830 supportive1858 subcurative1917 the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > alleviation supportation1527 lenition?1541 palliation1543 restriction1599 palliative1656 blandiment1684 supportive care1895 1858 Med. Times & Gaz. 18 Dec. 626/2 By a judicious use of counter-irritants..and a supportive and stimulating dietary and Medical treatment, the restorative powers of nature were enable to prevail. 1895 St. Louis Clinique Nov. 451/2 When once established lobar pneumonia requires but supportive care, looking after the heart, the respiration, the temperature and good nourishment. 1921 Colorado Med. Jan. 11/2 Transfusion has no effect on the course of the disease. Its only benefit is to act temporarily as a supportive measure. 1935 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 29 350/2 His emaciation and malnourished condition did not favour rapid recovery, but with supportive care, the patient was discharged in good condition on the twenty-fifth postoperative day. 1974 L. Thomas in B. Dixon From Creation to Chaos (1993) 260 A new kind of much less ambitious and flamboyant therapy began to emerge, termed supportive treatment, and consisting in large part of plain common sense. 1985 Washington Post 26 Oct. a21/1 Those infants given the black spot by the medical team were provided no more than ‘supportive care’. 2004 J. M. Barry Great Influenza (2005) vi. 250 There is no way of stopping the process of disintegration in the lung once it begins. The only care is supportive, keeping the victim alive until her or she can recover. c. spec. That provides encouragement or emotional help; giving psychological support. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [adjective] confortant1450 couraging?1542 advocatory1569 pro1650 encouraging1663 bright1684 undergirding1868 supportive1940 1940 G. Hamilton Theory & Pract. of Social Case Work xiv. 357 The psychiatrist advises a sustaining, or supportive, relationship with the mother. 1954 H. C. Shands in Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry 24 84 It is necessary that the anxious individual have available a supportive pattern of relationship to depend upon through the learning period. 1962 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry xi. 286 This sort of supportive psychotherapy is relevant in every case. 1980 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 12/4 Most American psychotherapists now advertise themselves as ‘supportive’. 2003 Company June 10/3 While she had a supportive boyfriend, mine ran a mile. 2. That prevents falling, sinking, or giving way; that holds something in place; that bears all or part of a weight. Earliest in figurative contexts. Cf. supporting adj. 2.Not now usual in architectural and building contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supporting bearingOE portativea1500 supporting1591 shoring1622 stutted1638 supportive1665 firmamental1696 sustinent1704 support1778 sustaining1814 self-supporting1832 1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor ii. 20 Courses of life laborious and supportive; upon which foundation they laid all the superstructure of their after happiness and thrift. 1794 W. Huntington Myst. Godliness in Wks. (1811) XII. 243 This union between a foundation and building is a supportive union, and shews how all the intolerable load was laid on the Saviour. 1840 Mirror of Lit. 22 Aug. 122/1 The mind is a mighty mirror..which, though possessed of no visible area, or supportive platform, bears, oftentimes, bulks of most mountainous dimensions. 1878 S. C. Busey Congenital Occlusion & Dilation of Lymph Channels 136 Weichselbaum suggests another mode of development of the channels. The follicular proliferations become saturated with serum, ‘their cells are forced apart and in part disintegrate, whilst the supportive tissue with its mesh-cavities remains’. 1917 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1 Sept. 713/1 In removing the tonsillar capsule we take out an important supportive structure on which the normality of the physiologic action of the soft palate largely depends. 1973 Black Panther 23 June 6/2 She has vein trouble in her legs for which she wears supportive stockings. 2003 Esquire Aug. 72/1 I have to buy unattractive, mainly supportive bras that come in only white, black or beige. Derivatives suˈpportively adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [adverb] behind1630 supportinglya1664 supportively1932 1932 N.Y. Times 26 June ii. 2 e/3 The North did spring to arms right supportively. 1988 Los Angeles Times 19 June iv. 5/1 The name of the game is people and learning to deal effectively and supportively with people. 2006 C. Hiaasen Nature Girl iii. 35 ‘I thought it was a water snake.’..‘But you weren't afraid!’ his mother said supportively. suˈpportiveness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > [noun] > quality of being supportive supportiveness1946 1862 [implied in: F. T. Palgrave Handbk. Fine Art Coll. in Internat. Exhib. 1862 89 No bird in the heavens..could move with more absolute grace, or give the effect of more entire self-supportiveness.]. 1946 Jrnl. Clin. Psychol. 2 61/1 A ‘man-to-man’ regard for the client, characterized (ideally) by the understanding of empathy without the erratic quality of identification or the supportiveness of sympathy. 1968 A. J. Tannenbaum in H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens (1974) i. 4 They have worked with the children..in order to win their confidence and provide supportiveness. 1978 Nature 17 Aug. 698/1 We have also tried to determine whether there was a dorso-ventral pattern of host supportiveness of tumour growth. 2010 J. Brockner Contemp. Look at Organizational Justice vi. 206 Employees with high self-esteem were relatively unaffected by the supportiveness of their peer group. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1593
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