constructive

[ kuhn-struhk-tiv ]

/ kənˈstrʌk tɪv /

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adjective

helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.

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.

Origin of constructive

1670–80; < Medieval Latin constrūctīvus, equivalent to Latin constrūct(us) (see construct) + īvus -ive

SYNONYMS FOR constructive

1 productive, helpful, handy, useful.

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OTHER WORDS FROM constructive

con·struc·tive·ly, adverb con·struc·tive·ness, noun non·con·struc·tive, adjective non·con·struc·tive·ly, adverb

non·con·struc·tive·ness, noun qua·si-con·struc·tive, adjective qua·si-con·struc·tive·ly, adverb un·con·struc·tive, adjective un·con·struc·tive·ly, adverb

Words nearby constructive

construction, construction loan, construction paper, constructional homonymity, constructionist, constructive, constructive dismissal, constructive interference, constructivism, constructor, construe

Example sentences from the Web for constructively

If I can identify these things, and learn how to deal with them constructively, my recovery will progress.

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It is as yet too soon to constructively formulate such measures.

State of the Union Addresses of Herbert Hoover |Herbert Hoover
To move in one direction, is constructively to undertake for all.

Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers |Thomas De Quincey
Perhaps we constructively break the command to rest, because the resting we do is in most cases only a name, and not a fact.

A Tramp Abroad, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

No sooner was his back turned than, by a very convenient figure of thought, he was considered to be constructively absent.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 |Various
The subjective can be only understood and judged subjectively, that is, constructively.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung

British Dictionary definitions for constructively

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

Derived forms of constructive

constructively, adverb constructiveness, noun

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