supportful

English

Etymology

support +‎ -ful

Adjective

supportful (comparative more supportful, superlative most supportful)

1. Providing support; supportive.
   • 1990, Formulation of the 1990 Farm Bill:

     I can say that our organization is supportful of the actions on behalf of many farm groups to stop the initiatives that are being led by the current administration, to remove article 22 and article 11 at the GATT talks.

   • 1994, Quality of Care in After School Programs:

     Lastly, I would like to extend my most serious gratitude to my very supportful family.

   • 2013, Eric Schopler, Parent Survival Manual:

     Again his parents and supportful employment staff hit on a resourceful solution for turning the problem into a constructive activity.

2. (archaic) Abounding with support.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     proud of their supportful wings

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “supportful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)