| 单词 | supportive |
| 释义 | supportive (once / 5289 pages) adj To be supportive is to give help or assistance, to support. Good bras and good friends are supportive. Whether it's an object or a person, anything or anyone supportive helps things hold up. 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. WORD FAMILYsupportive: supportively, unsupportive+/insupportable: insupportably/support: supportable, supported, supporter, supporting, supportive, supports/supportable: insupportable, supportably, unsupportable/supported: unsupported/supporter: supporters/supporting: self-supporting, supportingly, supportings/unsupportable: unsupportably/unsupported: unsupportedly USAGE EXAMPLESHe was so supportive, she said, that she and her team decided to undertake even more changes. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Plan your response to people who may not be supportive. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Most parents were supportive of the change, but teachers were overwhelmingly against it, according to state documents. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) adj furnishing support or assistance a supportive family network his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer Syn|Ant positive characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliaryfurnishing added support accessary, accessoryaiding and abetting in a crime certificatoryserving to certify or endorse authoritatively collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifyingserving to support or corroborate demonstrative ofserving to prove or demonstrate encouraging, supportingfurnishing support and encouragement unsupportive not furnishing support or assistance negativecharacterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features confounding, contradictorythat confounds or contradicts or confuses disconfirming, invalidatingestablishing as invalid or untrue |
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