About The Word Constructive
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Constructive
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What's The Definition Of Constructive?
[adj] constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
[adj] emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism" Synonyms | Synonyms for Constructive: creative | formative | inferential | reconstructive | rehabilitative | shaping | structural Related Terms | Find terms related to Constructive: 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 See Also | positive Constructive In Webster's Dictionary \Con*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. constructif.]
1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in
construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.
The constructive fingers of Watts. --Emerson.
2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or
interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
{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.
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