supportive

• HYPHEN: sup=port=ive

OXFORD DICTIONARY

supportive, adj. providing support or encouragement.

Derivative

supportively adv. supportiveness n.

THESAURUS

supportive

assuring, auspicious, bearing, bolstering, bracing, bright with promise, burdened, buttressing, carrying, cheering, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, consolatory, consoling, corroborating, corroborative, corroboratory, encouraging, favorable, full of promise, heartening, helpful, holding, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, looking up, maintaining, of good comfort, of promise, pregnant of good, promising, propitious, propping, reassuring, relieving, shoring, substantiating, supporting, suspensory, sustaining, sustentative, sympathetic, understanding, upholding, verificative, verifying