Constructive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Serving to improve or advance; helpful: constructive criticism.
  • adj. Of or relating to construction; structural.
  • adj. Law Based on an interpretation; not directly expressed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Relating to construction.
  • adj. Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
  • adj. Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction.
  • adj. Derived from, or depending on, construction, inference, or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
  • adj. helpful; promoting improvement; intended to help. Contrasted with destructive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of constructing, or of being employed in construction; formative; shaping.
  • Relating or pertaining to the act or process of construction; of the nature of construction.
  • Affirmative; inferring a result from a rule and the subsumption of a case under the rule: applied to arguments.
  • Deduced by construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred; imputed, in contradistinction to actual: applied, in law, to that which amounts in the eye of the law to an act, irrespective of whether it was really and intentionally performed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good
  • adj. constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development
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