Constructive

English

Adjective

Constructive (comparative more Constructive, superlative most Constructive)

1. Relating to construction.
2. Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
3. (law) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.

Adverbs for Constructive

helpfully; critically; definitely; remarkably; valuably; significantly; magnificently; sensibly; fundamentally; essentially; liberally; splendidly; creatively; clearly; saliently; strikingly; explicitly.

Derived terms

terms derived from Constructive

constructive criticism constructive dismissal constructive eviction constructive notice constructive logic constructive trust

constructively constructiveness constructivism deconstructive unconstructive

Thesaurus

beneficial, causative, conducive, construable, constructional, contributory, creative, deduced, definitional, 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,

Etymology

construct

Translations

relating to construction

Bulgarian: строителен (bg), конструктивен (bg)

Romanian: de construcție (ro) m. and n., construcțional (ro) m. and n.

carefully considered and meant to be helpful

Bulgarian: конструктивен (bg) Finnish: rakentava (fi) French: constructif (fr)

German: konstruktiv (de) Romanian: constructiv (ro) m. and n.

imputed by law