unsupportive

Definitions

Failing to provide necessary help, encouragement, or emotional backing.

Not showing approval or agreement with someone's actions or ideas.

Examples

Her colleagues were surprisingly unsupportive when she presented her new project idea.

He felt discouraged by his family's unsupportive attitude toward his decision to pursue a career in the arts.

Synonyms

unhelpful discouraging uncooperative indifferent dismissive unsympathetic unaccommodating

Antonyms

supportive helpful encouraging cooperative sympathetic accommodating caring