supportiveadjective
uk/səˈpɔː.tɪv/us/səˈpɔːr.t̬ɪv/C1 showing agreement and giving encouragement:
groups who are generally supportive of the government
approving giving help and encouragement:
Children with supportive parents often do better at school than those without.
He told me it was my own fault, which wasn't very supportive.
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Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand by sth
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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Kind & thoughtful
Helping and co-operating
supportively
adverb uk/səˈpɔː.tɪv.li/us/səˈpɔːr.t̬ɪv.li/
Try to listen supportively when your partner talks.
supportiveness
noun [ U ] uk/səˈpɔː.tɪv.nəs/us/səˈpɔːr.t̬ɪv.nəs/