constructive

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 7.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Relating to or causing construction.
2. adjective Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
3. adjective Serving a useful purpose.
4. adjective 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. adjective Not direct or expressed, but inferred.

Similar words

structural shaping formative reconstructive rehabilitative creative inferential positive constructing building

Often followed by

and criticism work notice trust suggestions way role or

Word family

construct constructed constructing construction constructions constructively constructiveness constructivenesses constructs