SUPPORTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does supported mean?
• SUPPORTED (adjective)
The adjective SUPPORTED has 2 senses:
1. sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)
2. held up or having the weight borne especially from below
Familiarity information: SUPPORTED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SUPPORTED (adjective)
Meaning:
Sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support)
Context examples:
a club entirely supported by membership dues / well-supported allegations
Similar:
fostered; nourished (encouraged or promoted in growth or development)
financed (supported financially)
endorsed (formally supported especially by public statement)
corroborated; substantiated; verified (supported or established by evidence or proof)
based on (being founded on)
based; founded (having a basis; often used as combining terms)
backed; backed up (having backing)
subsidised; subsidized (having partial financial support from public funds)
Antonym:
unsupported (not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid)
Meaning:
Held up or having the weight borne especially from below
Context example:
supported joints in a railroad track have ties directly under the rail ends
Similar:
based (having a base)
underslung (supported from above especially in a vehicle having springs attached to the axle from below)
underhung (supported from below especially resting on a track instead of suspended from above)
suspended ((of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment)
supernatant (of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate)
dependent; hanging; hanging down; pendant; pendent (supported from above)
gimbaled (supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips)
braced; buttressed (held up by braces or buttresses)
Antonym:
unsupported (not held up or borne)
unsupported (not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid)
