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🪜 Held up 🤝 Helped or backed
supported

supported

2.0
Given money or help by others
  • adjective
  • /səˈpɔrtɪd/
translation icon : apoyado
  • This notion is actually increasingly supported by neuroscience.

So it's not something that is quite supported by your social network.

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Examples

  • She felt supported by her friends during difficult times.

  • At the federal level, this is more supported by the Republicans.

    ReasonTV

  • So it's not something that is quite supported by your social network.

    Big Think

  • But I, I always felt supported from the, from the beginning.

    Shawn Ryan Show

  • Now I can feel comfortable and supported and it's so stretchy.

  • Coming up, the Megyn Kelly Show is supported by Grand Canyon University.

    Megyn Kelly

  • The charity aims to create programs that are supported by community volunteers.

  • His views on the matter are supported by extensive research.

Synonyms

assisted
vssupported
1 3.2

Getting help or support when doing something

is kept going by ongoing backing rather than by direct physical means
aided
vssupported
3.2

Having received help from a person or thing

is maintained over time by continuous backing not by physical means

Antonyms

self-sufficient
33 3.9

Can live without help from other people

unsupported
1 3.9

Not held up by anything and likely to fall

How Supported

backed
2.5
supported
2.0
assisted
1 3.2
unsupported
1 3.9

Surface Forms

supported positive

Morphology

supported = support (transparent) = support + ed

The participial/adjectival form 'supported' meaning 'sustained by aid or backing' is a straightforward derivation from 'support' + '-ed'.

Etymology

Supported comes from Latin parts sub- 'under' and portare 'to carry', the same 'carry' root you see in transport and portable. That's why when a person or project is supported by help or money, it is 'carried' along by that help rather than by physical means.