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Word: Constructive
Speech Type: Adjective
mid 17th century (in constructive (sense 2)): from late Latin constructivus, from Latin construct- ‘heap together’, from the verb construere (see construct)
kənˈstrʌktɪv
having or intended to have a useful or beneficial purpose
Short Definition:having or intended to have useful or beneficial purpose
Examples:- constructive advice
not obvious or stated explicitly; derived by inference
Short Definition:not obvious or stated explicitly
Examples:- constructive liability
relating to, based on, or denoting mathematical proofs which show how an entity may in principle be constructed or arrived at in a finite number of steps.
Short Definition:relating to, based on, or denoting mathematical proofs which show how entity may in principle be constructed or arrived at in finite number of steps
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