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All supportive synonyms

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adj supportive

  • accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
  • ancillary — The ancillary workers in an institution are the people such as cleaners and cooks whose work supports the main work of the institution.
  • assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
  • backup — Backup consists of extra equipment, resources, or people that you can get help or support from if necessary.
  • collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
  • complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
  • contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
  • reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
  • secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • abetting — to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
  • adjuvant — aiding or assisting
  • appurtenant — relating, belonging, or accessory
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