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What is the adjective for sustenance?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs sustain and sustentate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sustainable
  1. Able to be sustained.
  2. Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. defensible, tenable, defendable, justifiable, maintainable, strong, supportable, impregnable, reliable, viable, credible, plausible, rational, sound, vindicable, warrantable, able to hold water, acceptable, reasonable, workable, allowable, bearable, admissible, tolerable, arguable, endurable, sufferable, feasible, manageable, excusable, logical, passable, legitimate, condonable, valid, satisfactory, understandable, proper, attainable, possible, achievable, believable, sensible, doable, permissible, right, practicable, pardonable, justified, affordable … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “You have presented a circular argument that is not sustainable.”
      “Your extreme diet will lead to undernourishment and is not sustainable over the long term.”
      “It is important to understand that Edward had a perfectly sustainable claim to the French throne.”
sustentative
  1. Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.
  2. (biology) Relating to those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, beneficial, wholesome, nutrient, nutritional, sustaining, salutary, comestible, peptic … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “These causes may be conveniently divided as in the above diagram, into sustentative and non-sustentative.”
      “While applicants have been earning Innovation credits for more than a decade, the USGBC has yet to study the results or use the resulting approaches in sustentative ways.”
sustained
  1. Held continuously at a certain level.
  2. (music) Held at a certain pitch.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. constant, continuous, perpetual, prolonged, steady, unremitting, continuing, ongoing, running, continual, incessant, nonstop, persistent, relentless, unabating, unbroken, unceasing, unending, unfaltering, unrelenting, unrelieved, ceaseless, chronic, continued, endless, lasting, maintained, uninterrupted, non-stop, never-ending, round the clock, interminable, eternal, everlasting, permanent, enduring, regular, unwavering, unvarying, round-the-clock, perennial, unflagging, unchanging, abiding, recurrent, undeviating, repeated, consecutive, unfailing, timeless … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He has been able to thrive in his role despite the sustained pressure that comes with it.”
sustinent
  1. (biology) Serving to sustain; offering sustenance.
sustentacular
  1. (anatomy) Serving to support or sustain.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The lumina are filled with cellular detritus and are no longer bordered by a clear ring of sustentacular cytoplasm.”
      “The sustentacular cytoplasm has a less compact arrangement in late May than in April.”
      “Increase in size following emergence from hibernation may be due in part to proliferation of the sustentacular cytoplasm.”
sustaining
  1. present participle of sustain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caring, supporting, fostering, nurturing, raising, guarding, facilitating, maintaining, accommodating, nourishing, baby sitting, ministering, mothering, nursing, overseeing, protecting, supervising, watching, sitting, attending to, bringing up, fending for, keeping an eye on, looking after, looking out for, paying attention to, providing for, seeing to, tending to, watching over, getting, experiencing, suffering, undergoing, feeling, having, enduring, going through, incurring, bearing, facing, living through, coming up against, meeting with, encountering, receiving, tasting, contracting, witnessing, coming into contact with … more
sustentated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sustentate
sustentating
  1. present participle of sustentate
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