constructive — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Relating to or causing construction.

   Antonimy

   destructive

2. Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

   Synonimy

   productivehelpfuluseful

3. Serving a useful purpose.

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   At the same time, it was Marx's view that under communism men's individual possibilities would display themselves only in socially constructive ways, so that conflicts among individuals would lose all raison d'être.

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.

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   constructive dismissal

   constructive notice

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   constructive trust

5. Not direct or expressed, but inferred.

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   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.

Przymiotnik

1. constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development

   Antonimy

   destructive

   Przykłady

   constructive criticism

   a constructive attitude

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   a constructive philosophy

   constructive permission

2. emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good

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   constructive criticism