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Supportive vs Nonsupportive - What's the difference?

supportive | nonsupportive |

As adjectives the difference between supportive and nonsupportive

is that supportive is providing support while nonsupportive is not supportive.

supportive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Providing support.
    • I had a very supportive coach who helped me.

    Antonyms

    * unsupportive

    nonsupportive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not supportive
  • *{{quote-journal, 2001, date=August 24, Yuntao Wu & Jon W. Marsh, Selective Transcription and Modulation of Resting T Cell Activity by Preintegrated HIV DNA, Science citation
    • , passage=However, viral infection is limited by the quiescence of most circulating T cells, which is nonsupportive of viral replication. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1990, date=February 23, author=Robert McClory, title=The Rights of Men, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He saw joint custody as a way of countering the stereotype that labels the father as moneymaker and the mother as nurturer, and by the same token considers a noncustodial mother as much a failure as a nonsupportive father. }}