Usually means: Providing help and encouragement consistently.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word supportive:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. supportive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. supportive: Merriam-Webster
  3. supportive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. supportive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. supportive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. supportive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Supportive, supportive: Wordnik
  8. supportive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. supportive: Wiktionary
  10. supportive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. supportive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. supportive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. supportive: Dictionary.com
  14. supportive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. supportive: Rhymezone
  16. supportive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. supportive: FreeDictionary.org
  18. supportive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. supportive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. supportive: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. supportive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. supportive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. supportive: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Providing support.

Similar:
auxiliary, accessory, adjuvant, confirmative, corroborative, confirming, confirmatory, verificatory, validatory, appurtenant, more...

Opposite:
unsupportive, obstructive, antagonistic, hindering, detrimental

Phrases:
supportive care, supportive therapy, supportive treatment, Supportive psychotherapy, supportive mechanisms of teeth, more...

Colors:
    sky blue,     soft pink,     lavender,     mint green,     peach, more...



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Similar:
auxiliary, accessory, adjuvant, confirmative, corroborative, confirming, confirmatory, verificatory, validatory, appurtenant, more...

Opposite:
unsupportive, obstructive, antagonistic, hindering, detrimental

Phrases:
supportive care, supportive therapy, supportive treatment, Supportive psychotherapy, supportive mechanisms of teeth, supportive t's, supportive ts, Supportive housing, not supportive, very supportive, more...

Colors:
    sky blue,     soft pink,     lavender,     mint green,     peach, more...



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