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sup·port·ive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. supportiveadjective

    furnishing support or assistance

    "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"

Wiktionary

  1. supportiveadjective

    Providing support.

    I had a very supportive coach who helped me.

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  1. supportive

    Supportive refers to the act of providing help, encouragement, or care to someone, often in order to assist them in achieving a particular goal or dealing with a certain situation. It usually means showing understanding, empathy, and kindness, and it implies being available, attentive, and responsive to someone's needs, challenges, or feelings. It can also refer to something that is designed to bear the weight or pressure of another object.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of supportive in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of supportive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of supportive in a Sentence

  1. George Hershman:

    The industry is supportive that the administration acted quickly, but it still caused months of impact and delay, we have to recover from that ; that's going to take a little while.

  2. Stewart McLaurin:

    We would say we are not lobbying for this at all, it is just a consideration we make. We want to be respectful of every first lady's role, and our role is to be supportive of White House on behalf of the American people.

  3. Rohini Haar:

    Our jobs in the emergency department and in hospitals have gotten exponentially more stressful and harder, and that’s at baseline even when people are super supportive, to do that work and to do it with commitment while being attacked or with the fear of being attacked is heartbreaking to me.

  4. John Elvidge:

    Dr. Metwally gave people the impression that he was supportive of Kelly Wilson and yet he was willing to fuel her appetite for drugs which went well beyond what her general practitioner was prepared to supply.

  5. Simone Biles:

    There are probably a lot of athletes who have mental health problems, but I hope that the world will become more supportive, i'm sure there are athletes who will be saved by them coming out, and I respect their courageous action.

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