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Sustained vs Sustentative - What's the difference?

sustained | sustentative |

As adjectives the difference between sustained and sustentative

is that sustained is held continuously at a certain level while sustentative is adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.

As a verb sustained

is (sustain).

sustained

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sustain)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Held continuously at a certain level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • (music) Held at a certain pitch.

    • Synonyms

    * (held at a certain level) constant, continuous, steady

    sustentative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.
    • sustentative citations or quotations
  • (biology) Relating to those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.
    • (Webster 1913)