Synonyms of the word

supportive

• adj. Providing support.

accessory

• adj. Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in…
• adj. (law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself.
• adj. Present in a minor amount, and not essential.
• n. Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
• n. (fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
• n. (law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
• n. (art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental…

adjunct

• n. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
• n. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
• n. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour…
• n. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
• n. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while"…
• n. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
• n. (rhetoric) Symploce.
• n. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
• adj. Connected in a subordinate function.
• adj. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

adjuvant

• adj. helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.].
• adj. (medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment; specifically, a cancer therapy administered…
• n. Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.].
• n. (medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment…
• n. (pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient…
• n. (pesticide science) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products,…
• n. (immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.].

ancillary

• adj. Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary; accessory.
• n. Something that serves an ancillary function, such as an easel for a painter.
• n. (archaic) An auxiliary.

appurtenant

• adj. Of or pertaining to an appurtenance.
• adj. Ancillary or subsidiary.
• n. An appendage or attachment.
• n. (law) A type of easement benefiting real property that "runs with the land" as opposed to an interest…

auxiliary

• adj. Helping; giving assistance or support.
• adj. Supplementary or subsidiary.
• adj. Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
• adj. (nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
• adj. (grammar) Relating to an auxiliary verb.
• n. A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
• n. A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
• n. (grammar) An auxiliary verb.
• n. A marching band colorguard.

certificatory

• adj. Serving to certify something.

collateral

• adj. Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
• adj. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
• adj. Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
• adj. Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
• adj. Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
• adj. Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
• adj. Coming or directed along the side.
• adj. Acting in an indirect way.
• n. A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough…
• n. (now rare) A collateral (not linear) family member.
• n. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
• n. (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short…
• n. A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.

confirmative

• adj. That serves to confirm.

confirmatory

• adj. Serving to confirm something.

confirming

• v. present participle of confirm.
• n. An act of confirmation.

corroborative

• adj. Serving to corroborate.
• n. (dated) a medical tonic; a corroborant.

corroboratory

• adj. Serving to corroborate or strengthen.

encouraging

• adj. giving courage, confidence or hope.
• adj. supporting by giving encouragement.
• adj. auspicious, or bringing good luck.
• v. present participle of encourage.
• n. encouragement.

positive

• adj. Not negative or neutral.
• adj. (law) Formally laid down.
• adj. Stated definitively and without qualification.
• adj. Fully assured in opinion.
• adj. (mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
• adj. Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
• adj. Overconfident, dogmatic.
• adj. (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
• adj. (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
• adj. (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative,…
• adj. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
• adj. Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their…
• adj. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
• adj. (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
• adj. Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
• adj. Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
• adj. Optimistic.
• adj. (chemistry) electropositive.
• adj. (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
• adj. (slang) HIV positive.
• adj. (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought',…
• n. A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
• n. A favourable point or characteristic.
• n. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
• n. (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
• n. (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
• n. (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
• n. The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• n. A positive result of a test.

subsidiary

• adj. Auxiliary or supplemental.
• adj. Secondary or subordinate.
• adj. Of, or relating to a subsidy.
• n. A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
• n. (music) A subordinate theme.

substantiating

• v. present participle of substantiate.

substantiative

• adj. Serving to substantiate something.

supporting

• adj. That supports.
• v. present participle of support.
• n. That which supports something else; a support.

validating

• v. present participle of validate.

validatory

• adj. That serves to validate.

verificatory

• adj. Serving to verify something.

verifying

• v. present participle of verify.