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constructive

/kənˈstrʌktɪv/

constructiveadjective

more constructive

Comp.

most constructive

Super.

/kənˈstrʌktɪv/

Translations

constructifQui apporte une aide utile ou favorise l’amélioration.

Her constructive comments helped the team improve the design.

Ses remarques constructives ont aidé l’équipe à améliorer la conception.

Additional translations

constructifRelatif à la construction, à la création ou à l’élaboration.

constructifEn droit, qui est présumé ou réputé exister pour les besoins juridiques.

Definitions

Serving a useful purpose; tending to build up.

The teacher provided constructive feedback to help the student improve their writing skills.

Relating to or based on the process of construction or creation.

The architect's constructive approach to the project ensured that the building was both functional and aesthetically pleasing.

Inferred or imputed by law; not actual but assumed to exist for legal purposes.

The tenant was held to have constructive notice of the building's code violations.

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constructivenoun

constructives

/kənˈstrʌktɪv/

Used chiefly in competitive policy debate to denote a speech in which a side presents its main case.

Translations

discours constructifDans le débat politique universitaire.

The affirmative's first constructive laid out an ambitious education reform plan.

Le premier discours constructif de l’équipe affirmative a présenté un ambitieux plan de réforme de l’éducation.

Definitions

In policy debate, a speech in which a team sets out its principal arguments and evidence.

The affirmative's first constructive laid out an ambitious education reform plan.