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Adjective: constructive  kun'strúktiv
  1. Constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development
    "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
     
  2. Emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good
    "constructive criticism"

See also: constructively, constructiveness, creative, formative, inferential, plastic, positive, reconstructive, rehabilitative, shaping, structural

Antonym: destructive

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