Constructive Definition

kən-strŭktĭv
adjective
Leading to improvements or advances; formative; positive.
Constructive criticism.
Webster's New World
Of construction or structure.
Webster's New World
Inferred or implied by legal or judicial interpretation.
Constructive fraud.
Webster's New World
Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
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(law) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.

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Origin of Constructive

  • From Middle French constructif

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Constructive Sentence Examples

  • As a constructive thinker, he did little.

  • She has practised no single constructive craft which would call for the use of her hands.

  • While Jeremiah's tendency was spiritual and ideal, Ezekiel's was constructive and practical.

  • That successor, Stephen I., was one of the great constructive statesmen of history.

  • As, however, we can easily see that the constructive processes are much greater than those which lead to the disappearance of material from the plant-body, there is generally to be seen a conspicuous increase in the substance of the plant.

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