Constructive

Quick meaning: Constructive is an adjective meaning Relating to or causing construction.

Meaning

Relating to or causing construction.

More Meanings

1. Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
2. Serving a useful purpose.
3. Not direct or expressed, but inferred.
4. (law) Deemed after the fact to exist or to have occurred, despite the formal process not having been followed; often when there was no intention to do so at the time.

Example Sentences

constructive trust

constructive notice

constructive dismissal

A President's power begins slipping away the moment it is known that he is going to leave: I had seen that in 1952, in 1960, in 1968. On the eve of my resignation I knew that my role was already a symbolic one, and that Gerald Ford's was now the constructive one. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings, and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.

Synonyms for constructive

Depending on context, synonyms include productive, helpful, useful, positive, creative, formative.

Antonyms for constructive

Common opposites include destructive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include structural, shaping, formative, reconstructive, rehabilitative, creative.

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