'Constructive' definitions:
Definition of 'constructive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission" [ant: destructive]
adjective
Emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism"
Definition of 'Constructive'
From: GCIDE
- Constructive \Con*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. constructif.]
- 1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. [1913 Webster]
- The constructive fingers of Watts. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction, inference, or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. [1913 Webster]
- 3. helpful; promoting improvement; intended to help; as, constructive criticism; constructive suggestions. Contrasted with destructive. [PJC]
- Constructive crimes (Law), acts having effects analogous to those of some statutory or common law crimes; as, constructive treason. Constructive crimes are no longer recognized by the courts.
- Constructive notice, notice imputed by construction of law.
- Constructive trust, a trust which may be assumed to exist, though no actual mention of it be made. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'constructive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageous,
- aidful,
- beneficial,
- causative,
- conducive,
- construable,
- constructional,
- contributory,
- creative,
- deduced,
- definitional,
- demiurgic,
- derived,
- descriptive,
- diagnostic,
- exegetic,
- formative,
- furthersome,
- generative,
- good for,
- helpful,
- hermeneutic,
- implicit,
- inferential,
- inferred,
- interpretable,
- interpretational,
- interpretive,
- inventive,
- originative,
- positive,
- practicable,
- practical,
- productive,
- profitable,
- ratiocinative,
- remedial,
- renderable,
- salutary,
- semeiological,
- serviceable,
- symptomatological,
- therapeutic,
- tropological,
- useful,
- virtual
Words containing 'Constructive'
- Construct,
- Constructed,
- Constructer,
- Constructing,
- Construction,
- Constructional,
- Constructively,
- Constructiveness,
- under construction,
- Construct form,
- Construct state,
- Construction of an equation,
- Construction train,
- Constructive crimes,
- Constructive fraud,
- Constructive mileage,
- Constructive notice,
- Constructive trust,
- Pregnant construction,
- construction industry,
- construction paper,
- construction worker,
- constructive breach,
- constructive eviction,
- constructive metabolism,
- constructive possession,
- grammatical construction,
- road construction,
- constructive-metabolic,
- grade-constructed