supportive

Thân thiện

Her friends are always supportive when she needs help.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Providing encouragement, help, or emotional backing to someone or something.
   • Serving to uphold, sustain, or assist.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She has a very supportive manager who encourages her career development.
  • The team's supportive atmosphere helped everyone perform better.
  • He was supportive of his friend's decision to change careers.

Advanced Usage

• "to be supportive of": This common collocation is used to indicate the target of one's support.
  • The community was supportive of the new environmental initiative.
• "mutually supportive": Describes a relationship where both parties provide support to each other.
  • They have a mutually supportive partnership that benefits both companies.

Variants and Related Words

• Supportively (adverb): In a supportive manner.
  • He nodded supportively during her presentation.
• Supportiveness (noun): The quality of being supportive.
  • The supportiveness of the group is its greatest strength.

Synonyms

• Encouraging: Giving someone confidence or hope.
• Helpful: Providing useful assistance.
• Backing: Giving support to a person or cause.

Antonyms

• Unsupportive: Not providing support or encouragement.
• Critical: Expressing disapproval or finding fault.
• Opposing: Acting against someone or something.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• A shoulder to cry on: Someone who provides emotional support during difficult times (this idiom describes a supportive person).
  • After her loss, her sister was a shoulder to cry on.
• In someone's corner: Supporting and defending someone.
  • Don't worry, I'm in your corner for this debate. (This implies being supportive.)

Học thuật

Adjective

1. furnishing support or assistance
   • a supportive family network
   • his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer