constructive

adjective

1. 1

   Relating to or causing construction.

2. 2

   Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

3. 3

   Serving a useful purpose.

   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. 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

   constructive notice

   constructive trust

5. 5

   Not direct or expressed, but inferred.

Forms

comparative

more constructive

superlative

most constructive