Synonyms for Supporting:

adj.
• affirmative
- affirmatory
- Acknowledging
- Affirming
- Endorsing
- Ratifying
- acquiescent
- complying
- confirming
- consenting
- positive
- supporting
• assisting
- Aiding
- Assisting
- Cooperating
- Sustaining
- auxiliary
- helpful
- helping
- serving
• compliant
- adherent
- compliant
- concurrent
- conforming
- meek
- obedient
- respectful
- servile
- submissive
- willing
- yielding
• supporting
- Propping
- Underpinning
- backing
- upholding
- approving
- shielding
• all
- encouraging
• auxiliary
- Abetting
- complementary
- subordinate
- subservient
- subsidiary
• collateral
- accompanying
- added
- attendant
- circuitous
- coincident
- concomitant
- coordinate
- corresponding
- dependent
- incident
- lateral
- parallel
- related
- roundabout
- satellite
- side
- sub
- tributary
• fundamental
- bottomline
- elemental
- elementary
- grass roots
- grass-roots
- grassroots
- in dispensable
- in-dispensable
- more axiological
- more bottom line
- more bottom-line
- more bottomline
- more foundational
- more grass roots
- more grass-roots
- more grassroots
- more meat and potatoes
- more meat-and-potatoes
- more substratal
- more substrative
- more sustaining
- more underived
- most axiological
- most bottom line
- most bottom-line
- most bottomline
- most foundational
- most fundamental
- most grass roots
- most grass-roots
- most grassroots
- most meat and potatoes
- most meat-and-potatoes
- most substratal
- most substrative
- most sustaining
- most underived
- para mount
- para-mount
- sub stratal
- sub-stratal
- substratal
- un derived
- un-derived
- under lying
- under-lying
• motherly
- de voted
- de-voted
- maternal
- more caretaking
- more nurturing
- more protecting
- more sheltering
- most caretaking
- most nurturing
- most protecting
- most sheltering
adv.
• under
- concealed by
- covered by
- held down
- on the bottom
- on the nether side
- on the underside
- pressed down
- the bottom
- to the bottom
n.
- alias
- bad guy
- baddy
- cameo
- chorus
- credit
- good guy
- goodie
- the proof of the pudding (is in the eating)
- overloaded
• confirmation
- acceptings
- affirmings
- authenticatings
- authorizings
- corroboratings
- re cognition
- re cognitions
- re-cognition
- sanctionings
- stamp approval
- supportings
- validatings
• encouragement
- consolings
- enlivenings
- inspiritments
- invigorations
- pro motions
- pro-motion
- re assurance
- re assurances
- re assuring
- re lief
- re-assurance
- re-assurances
- re-assuring
- re-lief
- reassurings
- relievings
- shot arm
- shot in arm
- shot the arm
- solacings
prep.
• behind
- in agreement
v.
• affirming
- Adjuring
- Admitting
- Attesting
- Averring
- Avouching
- Certifying
- Claiming
- Declaring
- Expressing
- Pledging
- Proclaiming
- Pronouncing
- Propounding
- Stating
- Submitting
- Testifying
- Warranting
- accepting
- asserting
- assuring
- contending
- professing
- promising
- setting down
- validating
• aiding
- Endowing
- Facilitating
- Mothering
- Relieving
- attending
- benefiting
- fostering
- funding
- ministering
- motivating
- tending
• approving
- strong for
• assisting
- Availing
- Succoring
• defending
- Barricading
- Fending
- Policing
- Rebutting
- Replying
- Resisting
- Responding
- Retorting
- Securing
- Sheltering
- Warding
- backfiring
- buffering
- counterattacking
- countering
- guarding
- opposing
- protecting
- returning
- safeguarding
- saving
• evincing
- Authenticating
- Betokening
- Connoting
- Deposing
- Establishing
- Evincing
- Exhibiting
- Illustrating
- Indicating
- Manifesting
- Proving
- Vouching
- Witnessing
- adducing
- demonstrating
- determining
- documenting
- exemplifying
- observing
• ordering
- Adjusting
- Arraying
- Classifying
- Classing
- Collating
- Forming
- Harmonizing
- Marshalling
- Mediating
- Methodizing
- Organizing
- Placing
- Plotting
- Preparing
- Righting
- Separating
- Stratifying
- Systematizing
- arranging
- balancing
- casting
- categorizing
- charting
- composing
- controlling
- designing
- devising
- fixing
- framing
- grading
- grouping
- integrating
- normalizing
- orchestrating
- ordering
- pigeonholing
- planning
- programming
- ranking
- rating
- rationalizing
- regulating
- scheduling
- schematizing
- scheming
- scoring
- screening
- setting
- settling
- shaping
- sifting
- sorting
- stabilizing
- structuring
- subordinating
- typing
- unifying
- unsnarling
• strengthening
- Empowering
- Toughening
- Vivifying
- beefing up
- energizing
- enlivening
- fortifying
- hardening
- invigorating
- reinforcing
- strengthening
- tempering
• support
- Upbear
- abet
- advance
- agree with
- approve
- attend to
- bankroll
- base
- be a foundation for
- be a source of strength
- bear out
- bear with
- bed
- bolster
- boost
- boost morale
- bottom
- bring up
- brook
- buoy up
- buttress
- care for
- carry on
- champion
- chaperon
- cheer
- cherish
- comfort
- countenance
- cradle
- crutch
- earn one's keep
- embed
- encourage
- endorse
- establish
- feed
- finance
- fortify
- forward
- foster
- found
- fund
- get behind
- give a leg up
- go
- go along with
- go through
- go to bat for
- ground
- guard
- handle
- help
- justify
- keep an eye on
- keep from falling
- keep up
- live with
- look after
- mainstay
- make a living
- nourish
- nurse
- pay expenses of
- pay for
- pick up the check
- plead for
- poise
- promote
- prop
- pull for
- put forward
- put up money for
- raise
- rally round
- reinforce
- set up
- shore
- shore up
- shoulder
- side with
- sponsor
- stake
- stand
- stand behind
- stay
- stay the course
- stick by
- stick it out
- stick up for
- stiffen
- strengthen
- stroke
- strut
- submit
- subsidize
- substantiate
- succor
- suffer
- sweat out
- take
- take one's side
- take the part of
- throw in one's lot with
- throw in with
- tolerate
- undergird
- undergo
- underwrite
- verify
- wait out
• supporting
- Hinging
Other synonyms:

•

load down
symptomatic

•

endowment
loaded

Other relevant words:

• confirmatory

corroborative

• contributory

contributing

• maternal

motherly

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• Other relevant words (preposition):

on the side of

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  support.
- Proper noun, singular
  support, supports.
- Noun, plural
  support, supports.
- Noun, singular or mass
  support.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  backstopping.
Reverse Entailment
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  buttressing, Propping.
- Verb, base form
  prop.
Independent
- Adjective
  assistive, explanatory, loyal, loyalist, matching, sustained, Flanking, Sustaining, supports, backstopping, pro-government, pro-.
- Proper noun, singular
  fostering, Its, Sustaining, Plays, Records, Selections, pieces, components, items, correspondents.
- Noun, plural
  Guarantees, Constituencies, Efforts, supporters, supplements, assurances, advocates, sponsors, VOTES.
- Noun, singular or mass
  substantiating, Sustaining, backstopping.
- Adverb
  supports.
- Verb, past tense
  built, endorsed, held, informed, Argued, Bolstered, Boosted, Brought, Espoused, associates, reinforcing, highlighted, Favoured.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  accepting, according, affecting, agency, agreeing, annex, approving, arguing, assigning, assuming, assuring, attending, beginning, being, belonging, binding, bring, bringing, calling, caring, center, centre, cheering, closing, coming, community, competing, concerning, concluding, confirming, contending, continuing, contributing, coordinating, creation, defending, developing, drawing, driving, easing, embracing, emphasizing, enduring, entering, facing, fastening, favoring, feeding, filling, financing, fixing, focusing, following, fostering, galvanizing, giving, grasping, gratifying, handling, heartening, holding, housing, impinging, increasing, incurring, informing, insisting, instrument, investing, keeping, lasting, leaning, leveraging, loading, making, marketing, matching, meaning, offering, operating, passport, paying, peacekeeping, playing, pleading, preserving, pressing, processing, promising, protecting, pulling, punishing, pursuing, pushing, raising, reasoning, regarding, remaining, resolving, resulting, retaining, sanctioning, saying, seeing, sending, serving, setting, shadowing, sharing, signing, substantiating, suffering, supplying, surrounding, taking, tightening, torture, undertaking, upbringing, urging, using, voting, welcoming, winning, writing, Abetting, Achieving, Acknowledging, Activities, Addressing, Adhering, Adopting, Advocating, Affirming, Alleging, Allowing, Applying, Appointing, Associating, Attesting, Bolstering, Bridging, Carrying, Cementing, Championing, Claiming, Clicking, Depending, Doing, Employing, Empowering, Endorsing, Escorting, Establishing, Experiencing, Explaining, Expressing, Flanking, Fulfilling, Generating, Granting, Guaranteeing, Harboring, Having, Hosting, Including, Indicating, Permitting, Perpetrating, Pertaining, Placing, Realizing, Receiving, Recognizing, Referring, Relating, Relying, Requiring, Rescuing, Responding, Resting, Seconding, Securing, Shouldering, Territories, Warranting, Withstanding, Commending, Consolidating, Containing, Cooperating, Corroborating, Creating, Cultivating, Proposing, Providing, Stating, Stepping, Submitted, Submitting, Subscribing, Subsidizing, Suggesting, Supplementing, Achievements, Grants, Guidelines, Regulations, benefiting, stressing, underlining, submits, documenting, reinforcing, demonstrating, collaborating, ensuring, comments, vouchers, items, passports, targeting, fuelling, complementing, mentoring, reaffirming, Favouring, emphasising, harbouring, killing, _, \.
- Verb, past participle
  endorsed.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  fostering, provide, facilitates, fosters, justifies, contributes, enhances, relies, uses, builds, subscribes, depends.
- Verb, base form
  argue, beef, buttress, catalyze, champion, consolidate, countenance, espouse, favor, fostering, nourish, reinforce, rely, shore, subscribe, subsidize, substantiate, underpin, underwrite, withstand.
Other Related
- Cardinal number
  backing, support.
- Proper noun, singular
  backing.
- Noun, singular or mass
  backing.
- Adverb
  support.
- Verb, past tense
  sustained, sponsored.
- Verb, gerund or present participle
  asserting, backing, initiative, service, servicing, standing, Admitting, Basing, Sustaining, supporters, sponsoring.
- Verb, past participle
  sustained.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  sustains.
- Verb, base form
  sponsor.

What are the hypernyms for Supporting?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for supporting (as nouns)
- act
  propping up, suspension, shoring, hanging, dangling, shoring up.

What are the hyponyms for Supporting?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for supporting (as nouns)
- act
  activity.

What are the opposite words for supporting?

The word supporting means to provide assistance, help or encouragement. However, there are multiple antonyms to the word supporting. One of the antonyms is opposing which means to be against or in disagreement with. Another antonym is discouraging which means to make someone lose confidence or enthusiasm. Criticizing is also an antonym of supporting and it means to express disapproval or judgment. Neglecting is yet another antonym for supporting which means to ignore or disregard someone or something. Finally, the word underminin is an antonym for supporting, which means to weaken or subvert someone's efforts or position.

What are the antonyms for Supporting?

adj.
• affirmative
- dissenting
- negative
• auxiliary
- body
- main
• collateral
- chief
- direct
- primary
- principal
• consuming, wearing; bitter
- corrosive
• corrosive
- erosive
- more corroding
- more erosive
- more wasting
- most corroding
- most erosive
- most wasting
- strongly acid
- venomous
• noun
- contradictory
- contrary
- counter
- nonbearing
- opposing
- unsupportive
• opposing
- rival
• rival
- more battling
- more combatant
- more combating
- more competing
- more contending
- more contesting
- more disputing
- more emulating
- more striving
- more vying
- most battling
- most combatant
- most combating
- most competing
- most contending
- most contesting
- most disputing
- most emulating
- most striving
- most vying
• supporting
- Against
v.
• support
- contradict
- disapprove
- let down
- let go
- neglect
- oppose
- refuse
- reject
- release
Other relevant words:

abandon

Usage examples for Supporting

Larry put his arm about her and held her to him, supporting her gently.

"The Eye of Dread"

Payne Erskine

Nell, supporting her head on old Dinah's knee, fell asleep.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

But after the last supporting sleds return, the men are bound to each other for protection and can no longer separate.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Supporting

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

Alan Alda
I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

Ibrahim Babangida
I've spent my life supporting myself.

Ann Beattie
I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead.

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adj.

adv.

n.

prep.

v.

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