constructive

Meanings

Adjective

• constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development
  • "constructive criticism"
  • "a constructive attitude"
  • "a constructive philosophy"
  • "constructive permission"

Adjective Satellite

• emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good
  • "constructive criticism"

Adj

• Relating to or causing construction.
• Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
• Serving a useful purpose.
• 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.
• Not direct or expressed, but inferred.

Synonyms

helpful, productive, useful

Antonyms

destructive