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Definition: Supportive |
SupportiveAdjective1. Furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "supportive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
| Antonym: unsupportive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Supportive |
| English words defined with "supportive": assist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "supportive": ASSEMBLER, GOLD FRAME ♦ Bibliotherapy, BLOOD-DONOR-UNIT ASSISTANT ♦ clinical counselo, CLINICAL THERAPIST, COMMUNITY WORKER, ct technologis ♦ DIRECTOR, CORRECTIONAL AGENCY ♦ education support organisation, education support services ♦ Hospices ♦ INVESTIGATOR, INTERNAL AFFAIRS ♦ PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT, physical therapy assistant, physical therapy technicia, physiotherapis, psychologist, clinica ♦ RADIATION-PROTECTION ENGINEER, RADIATION-THERAPY TECHNOLOGIST ♦ Scleroproteins, SECTIONAL CENTER MANAGER, POSTAL SERVICE, SPECIAL PROCEDURES TECHNOLOGIST, CT SCAN, support organisation, support services, supportive service. (references) |
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Lyrics | Emotionally available and supportive (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pictured here is a trial run of a patient taken from CDC to a nearby medical center. A doctor is administering care to the patient with supportive help from the Isolation Unit medical staff. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Intensive supportive therapy is indicated. (references) | |
Other therapy is symptomatic and supportive. (references) | ||
Friends and relatives can be very supportive. (references) | ||
Business | Some local importers perceive European and Japanese suppliers as more supportive. (references) | |
Additionally, there were no significant automotive part manufacturers who could be supportive of this industry's evolution. (references) | ||
The major export item was HS901890. While the Australian Government is supportive of research and development, domestic production is not expected to grow significantly. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kuwait | The leaders of these churches state that the Government generally has been supportive of the churches' presence, even providing police security and traffic direction as needed. (references) |
Tunisia | Like journalists, university professors indicated that they sometimes practiced self-censorship by avoiding classroom criticism of the Government or statements supportive of the An-Nahdha movement. (references) | |
Korea | Although some foreigners who have visited the country over the years state that church activity appears staged, others believe that church services are genuine, although sermons contain both religious and political content supportive of the regime. (references) | |
Economic History | Honduras | Honduras is supportive of U.S. policy in the UN and other fora. (references) |
Oman | Finally, companies will find the Omani government supportive of joint venture projects. (references) | |
Croatia | The World Bank has likewise established a supportive relationship with the Croatian government. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | Reportedly KPC officers and members also were involved in directly and materially supportive of political violence in connection with ethnic fighting in the Presevo Valley and Macedonia; five KPC officers were suspended during the year in connection with these credible allegations. (references) |
Political Economy | FINLAND | Other ministries are more supportive of GMO commercialization. (references) |
Finland | It is generally center-right in orientation and supportive of EU membership. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | Luxembourg maintains an excellent and open trading climate for American companies, with government leaders at all levels very supportive of free trade. (references) |
Guatemala | Both the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) and the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) are operating in Guatemala and have been supportive of U.S. firms seeking to undertake projects in Guatemala that have the potential to generate substantial exports of U.S. products and services. (references) | |
Women | Ethiopia | The law does not specifically prohibit FGM, although it is discouraged officially, and the Government has been very supportive of the NCTPE. (references) |
Worker Rights | Chad | The unions were supportive of the opposition and played an active role in the presidential election campaign. (references) |
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Earl Charles Spencer | Well, from what I see, they're in a very good place at the moment in that they're at a school which is very supportive of them. It happens to be a boarding school. And they both seem extremely solid and together. |
Queen Rania of Jordan | I'm not quite clear about the details of this conference. But we are always supportive of any initiatives that promote peace. So I'm sure that our government will be supportive of that principle, but I don't know further details about it. |
Vice President Cheney | I don't give it any credence. I've talked with a lot of Democrats, and I find a lot of them are going to be supportive of what needs to be done here. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Business and labor have been increasingly supportive. |
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| "Supportive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Supportive" is used about 785 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 785 | 8,814 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "supportive": supportive care ♦ supportive service ♦ supportive therapy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "supportive": self-supportive. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "supportive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "援. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | støtteforanstaltninger (supportive measures), udvikling af stoetteinfrastrukturer (development of supportive infrastructure), pelvisstøttet rygstøttekorset (pelvis-supported trunk corset, supportive corset for spine), Blum's understøttende diæt (Blum supportive diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steunende therapie (supportive therapy), verzorgingsinstelling (education support organisation, education support services, support organisation, support services, supportive service), ontwikkeling van basisinfrastructuren (development of supportive infrastructure), onderwijsverzorgingsinstelling (education support organisation, education support services, support organisation, support services, supportive service), leefbaar milieu (livable environment, liveable environment, safe and supportive environment), beheersondersteunend informatiesysteem (management supportive information system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huoltomuodot (supportive services). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | système d'information assistant la gestion (management supportive information system), soins de soutien (supportive therapy), venir en appui (to be supportive of), thérapie de soutien (supportive therapy), régime protecteur de Blum (Blum supportive diet), psychothérapie de soutien (supportive therapy), mesure de soutien (supportive measures), développement d'infrastructures de soutien (development of supportive infrastructure), corset de soutien de Schrader (supportive corset for spine), cellule de soutien (supporting cell, supportive cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stützend (basing, pillowing, propping, supporting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μέτρα στήριξης (supportive measures), υποστηρικτική δίαιτα Blum (Blum supportive diet), ζώνη Blumentopf (pelvis-supported trunk corset, supportive corset for spine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | támogató (adherent, advocate, backer, espouser, fosterer, in support, pro, promoter, proponent, seconder, subservient, supporter, supporting, upholder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sviluppo di infrastrutture di sostegno (development of supportive infrastructure), cellula di sostegno (supporting cell, supportive cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 지지가 되". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upportivesay dieta de suporte de Blum (Blum supportive diet), desenvolvimento de infraestruturas de apoio (development of supportive infrastructure). (various references) отзывчивый (kindhearted, quick to sympathize, respondent, responsive, softhearted, tender-hearted), подпирающий, поддерживающий (backer, supporting, suspensory, sustaining). (various references) medidas de apoyo (supportive measures), dieta protectora de Blum (Blum supportive diet), corsé de sujeción de Schrader (pelvis-supported trunk corset, supportive corset for spine), célula de soporte (supporting cell, supportive cell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "supportive": supportiveness, supportivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Supportive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: purportive, suppurative, surportive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "supportive" (pronounced supô"rtiv) |
| 5 | -ô" r t i v | abortive. |
| 3 | -t i v | accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-p-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: purposive. | |
-2 letters: overtips, pervious, previous, roupiest, sorptive, sportive, viperous, virtuose, vitreous. | |
-3 letters: outvies, oversup, overtip, petrous, piteous, posture, potpies, pouters, poutier, privets, prostie, proteus, purpose, reposit, revuist, riposte, ripstop, ropiest, soppier, soupier, spouter, stopper, stourie, stuiver, support, tippers, toppers, troupes, virtues. | |
-4 letters: erupts, esprit, ouster, outers, outvie, pipers, pipets, pivots, poiser, popsie, poseur, poster. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-p-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: posteruptive. | |
+4 letters: supportiveness. | |
+5 letters: overpopulations. | |
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