| Constructive 1. (a.) Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. 2. (a.) Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. Thesaurus Entries advantageous, aidful, beneficial, causative, conducive, construable, constructional, contributory, creative, deduced, definitional, demiurgic, derived, descriptive, diagnostic, exegetic, formative, furthersome, generative, good for, helpful, hermeneutic, implicit, inferential, inferred, interpretable, interpretational, interpretive, inventive, originative, positive, practicable, practical, productive, profitable, ratiocinative, remedial, renderable, salutary, semeiological, serviceable, symptomatological, therapeutic, tropological, useful, virtual |