Constructive

//kənˈstɹʌktɪv// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to or causing construction.
  2. 2
    Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
  3. 3
    Serving a useful purpose.
  4. 4
    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.

    "constructive dismissal"

  5. 5
    Not direct or expressed, but inferred.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development wordnet
  2. 2
    emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good wordnet

Etymology

From Latin cōnstrūctīvus. By surface analysis, construct + -ive.

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