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constructive
[ kuhn-struhk-tiv ]
adjective
- helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement ( destructive ):
constructive criticism.
Synonyms: useful, handy, helpful, productive
- of, relating to, or of the nature of construction; structural.
- deduced by inference or interpretation; inferential:
constructive permission.
- Law. denoting an act or condition not directly expressed but inferred from other acts or conditions.
constructive
/ kənˈstrʌktɪv /
adjective
- serving to build or improve; positive
constructive criticism
- law deduced by inference or construction; not expressed but inferred
- law having a deemed legal effect
constructive notice
- another word for structural
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Derived Forms
- conˈstructiveness, noun
- conˈstructively, adverb
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Other Words From
- con·structive·ly adverb
- con·structive·ness noun
- noncon·structive adjective
- noncon·structive·ly adverb
- noncon·structive·ness noun
- quasi-con·structive adjective
- quasi-con·structive·ly adverb
- uncon·structive adjective
- uncon·structive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of constructive1
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Example Sentences
To do this, we need to be openly constructive, positive and ethical.
Constructive criticism is different from people just being dicks, and I love constructive criticism.
Reformers understood that constructive societal evolution was the antidote to socialist revolution.
On Monday, European Union countries condemned the air strikes and called for a ceasefire and “constructive dialogue.”
“We have since begun a constructive dialogue with the committee on the redactions,” Price said.
He saw now that her pain had not been as other pain; it was a constructive pain, a part of the task of her life.
With this clue to their meaning, it becomes possible to understand the main constructive proposals of the Majority Commissioners.
They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-fight.
The great constructive process in history gives so little scope for clapping and drumming and saying "'Ear, 'ear!"
I would listen to a stormy sea of babblement, and try to extract some constructive intimations.
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