Word Meanings - CONSTRUCTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.

Additional info about word: CONSTRUCTIVE

1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. Constructive crimes , acts having effects analogous to those of some statutory or common law crimes; as, constructive treason. Constructive crimes are no longer recognized by the courts. -- Constructive notice, notice imputed by construction of law. -- Constructive trust, a trust which may be assumed to exist, though no actual mention of it be made.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSTRUCTIVE)

• Circumstantial
• Inferential
• constructive
• minute
• detailed
• elaborate
• specific
• Virtual
• Potential
• implied
• practical
• substantial
• indirect
• essential
• implicit

Related words: (words related to CONSTRUCTIVE)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• IMPLIEDLY
  By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
  The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• CIRCUMSTANTIAL
  1. Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley. 2. Incidental; relating to, but not essential. We must therefore distinguish
• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• SUBSTANTIALS
  Essential parts. Ayliffe.
• PRACTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
• POTENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
• POTENTIALLY
  1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• PRACTICALLY
  1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
• ELABORATED
  developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate.
• IMPLICITLY
  1. In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence. Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury. 2. By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of
• IMPLICIT
  1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope. 2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South. 3. Resting
• CONSTRUCTIVE
  1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• SIMPLIFICATION
  The act of simplifying. A. Smith.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• INSUBSTANTIALITY
  Unsubstantiality; unreality.
• CONSUBSTANTIALLY
  In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
• SIMPLICIAN
  One who is simple. Arnway.