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},
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},
"expansion": "Middle French constructif",
"name": "uder"
},
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"2": "construct",
"3": "ive"
},
"expansion": "construct + -ive",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French constructif.\nMorphologically construct + -ive.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more constructive",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most constructive",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "destructive"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Relating to or causing construction."
],
"links": [
[
"construction",
"construction"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Carefully considered and meant to be helpful."
],
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"helpful",
"helpful"
]
],
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{
"word": "productive"
},
{
"word": "helpful"
},
{
"word": "useful"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Serving a useful purpose."
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"Serving",
"serving"
],
[
"useful",
"useful"
],
[
"purpose",
"purpose"
]
]
},
{
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"en:Law"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "constructive dismissal",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "constructive notice",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "constructive trust",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"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."
],
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"law",
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],
[
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[
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[
"occur",
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[
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],
[
"intention",
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],
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"(law) 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."
],
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"law"
]
},
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{
"ref": "1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1077:",
"text": "A President's power begins slipping away the moment it is known that he is going to leave: I had seen that in 1952, in 1960, in 1968. On the eve of my resignation I knew that my role was already a symbolic one, and that Gerald Ford's was now the constructive one. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings, and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not direct or expressed, but inferred."
]
}
],
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},
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kaṙucʻoġakan",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "կառուցողական"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "constructivu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stroítelen",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "строи́телен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "konstruktíven",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "конструкти́вен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "constructiu"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "construtivo"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sunthetikós",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "συνθετικός"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kensetsuteki na",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "建設的な"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "construtivo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "de construcție"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "construcțional"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stroítelʹnyj",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "строи́тельный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "constructivo"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "relating to or causing construction",
"word": "mapamuo"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kaṙucʻoġakan",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "կառուցողական"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "constructivu"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "kanstruktýŭny",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "канструкты́ўны"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "konstruktíven",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "конструкти́вен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "constructiu"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "constructief"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "rakentava"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "constructif"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "construtivo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktív"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "costruttivo"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kensetsuteki na",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "建設的な"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktywny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "construtivo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "constructiv"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "konstruktívnyj",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "конструкти́вный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "constructivo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "konstruktiv"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "mapamuo"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "konstruktývnyj",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "конструкти́вний"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "carefully considered and meant to be helpful",
"word": "adeiladol"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "imputed by law",
"word": "implicite"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "minashi no",
"sense": "imputed by law",
"word": "見做しの"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "suiteijō no",
"sense": "imputed by law",
"word": "推定上の"
}
],
"word": "constructive"
}
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