constructive
English
/kənˈstɹʌktɪv/
adj
Definitions
- Relating to or causing construction.
- Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
- (legal) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.
- Not direct or expressed, but inferred.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticonstructivism English
- coconstructive English
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructively English
- constructiveness English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- constructivization English
- constructivize English
- deconstructive English
- deconstructively English
- deconstructiveness English
- deconstructivism English
- deconstructivity English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- nonconstructive English
- obstruct English
- socioconstructivism English
- socioconstructivist English
- unconstructive English
- unconstructively English
- unconstructiveness English
- visuoconstructive English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- obstruct
- destruct
- destructible
- destructivity
- destructively
- constructible
- unconstructive
- constructivism
- deconstructive
- constructivize
- constructional
- constructively
- constructivist
- coconstructive
- constructionism
- destructiveness
- nonconstructive
- deconstructivism
- deconstructively
- constructiveness
- unconstructively
- deconstructivity
- visuoconstructive
- unconstructiveness
- deconstructiveness
- constructivization
- anticonstructivism
- socioconstructivist
- socioconstructivism