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Synonyms for constructive

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Antonyms for constructive

constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development

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emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good

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Washington has won the gratitude of all thoughtful Southern white men, is to say that he has worked with the highest practical wisdom at a large constructive task; for no plan for the up-building of the freedman could succeed that ran counter to Southern opinion.
Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
Vail, who was usually the man of constructive imagination in emergencies, began in 1882 a series of actual experiments at Attleborough, Massachusetts, to find out exactly what could, and what could not, be done with wires that were buried in the earth.
The constructive or combining power, by which ingenuity is usually manifested, and to which the phrenologists (I believe erroneously) have assigned a separate organ, supposing it a primitive faculty, has been so frequently seen in those whose intellect bordered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals.
Summary: New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): TDP will play the role of a constructive opposition in Andhra Pradesh, the party said on Friday.
On what theory of possession, actual or constructive, is the charge properly justified, and can the theory be justified as to both guns?
Pulkkila, James' former wife, appeals the denial of her motion for a constructive trust on behalf of the children.
Although a federal judge ruled that allegations of constructive discharge as opposed to outright firing might support a Virginia "Bowman" claim of wrongful termination, the judge said other factors undermined the effort to add that claim to a wiretapping lawsuit.
BEIJING:China on Tuesday said it would, as always, play a constructive role in properly solving the Rakhine State in Myanmar as this issue had a very complex historical, ethnic and religious background.
Summary: Beijing did not specify what it meant by 'constructive' role
Sempra Energy CEO Jeff Martin said he's holding "constructive" discussions with activist investors urging the company sell off assets and overhaul its board, Bloomberg reports.
However, the chancellor insisted that talks with EU officials were 'constructive.'
Nasa chief campaigner Musalia Mudavadi has welcomed constructive dialogue following Nasa's meeting as issues at hand are "extremely weighty".
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