Antonyms of adj unsupportive

1 sense of unsupportive

Sense 1
unsupportive (vs. supportive) -- (not furnishing support or assistance)

supportive (vs. unsupportive) -- (furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer")
        => accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary -- (furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other")
        => accessary, accessory -- (aiding and abetting in a crime; "he was charged with being accessory to the crime")
        => certificatory -- (serving to certify or endorse authoritatively)
        => collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying -- (serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence")
        => demonstrative of (predicate) -- (serving to prove or demonstrate; "the oath of office is...demonstrative of the legislative opinion on this subject"- John Marshall)
        => encouraging, supporting -- (furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher")

Similarity of adj unsupportive

1 sense of unsupportive

Sense 1
unsupportive (vs. supportive) -- (not furnishing support or assistance)
       => confounding, contradictory -- (that confounds or contradicts or confuses)
       => disconfirming, invalidating -- (establishing as invalid or untrue)
          Also See-> negative#1

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