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con·struc·tive  (kn-strktv)
adj.
1. Serving to improve or advance; helpful: constructive criticism.
2. Of or relating to construction; structural.
3. Law Based on an interpretation; not directly expressed.

con·structive·ly adv.
con·structive·ness n.

constructive
Adjective
1. useful and helpful: constructive criticism
2. Law deduced by inference; not openly expressed
constructively adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.constructive - constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
positive - characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
destructive - causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
2.constructive - emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism"
positive - characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"

constructive
Translations

constructive [kənˈstrʌktɪv] adjconstructivo
constructive [kənˈstrʌktɪv] construct adjconstructif/ive
constructive [kənˈstrʌktɪv] construct adjkonstruktiv
constructive [kənˈstrʌktɪv] adjcostruttivo/a

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For a coloured man to work it out in the South, where, in its constructive period, he was necessarily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every step to the strained race relations--that is so very different and more difficult a thing that the man who did it put the country under lasting obligations to him.
He also becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates.
This may serve as a specimen of the numerous handles which would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers, by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights.
 
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