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supportively

adverb

supportively is an adverb meaning “In a supportive way” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-P-P-O-R-T-I-V-E-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does supportively mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a supportive way.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of supportively

  • more supportively comparative
  • most supportively superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is supportively?

Supportively appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does supportively come from?

From supportive + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).