Constructive vs. Productive

Constructiveadjective

Relating to or causing construction.

Productiveadjective

Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.

Constructiveadjective

Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

Productiveadjective

Yielding good or useful results; constructive.

Constructiveadjective

(legal) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.

Productiveadjective

Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.

Constructiveadjective

Not direct or expressed, but inferred.

Productiveadjective

Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.

Constructiveadjective

Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.

‘The constructive fingers of Watts.’;

Productiveadjective

(medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.

Constructiveadjective

Derived from, or depending on, construction, inference, or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.

Productiveadjective

(medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.

Constructiveadjective

helpful; promoting improvement; intended to help; as, constructive criticism; constructive suggestions. Contrasted with destructive.

Productiveadjective

(set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.

‘a productive set’;

Constructiveadjective

constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development;

‘constructive criticism’; ‘a constructive attitude’; ‘a constructive philosophy’; ‘constructive permission’;

Productiveadjective

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

Constructiveadjective

emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good;

‘constructive criticism’;

Productiveadjective

Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.

‘And kindle with thy own productive fire.’; ‘This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit.’;

Constructive

Although the general English usage of the adjective constructive is as in the phrase in legal writing constructive has a different meaning.

‘helping to develop or improve something; helpful to someone, instead of upsetting and negative,’; ‘constructive criticism,’;

Productiveadjective

Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.

Productiveadjective

producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly);

‘productive farmland’; ‘his productive years’; ‘a productive collaboration’;

Productiveadjective

having the ability to produce or originate;

‘generative power’; ‘generative forces’;

Productiveadjective

yielding positive results

Productiveadjective

marked by great fruitfulness;

‘fertile farmland’; ‘a fat land’; ‘a productive vineyard’; ‘rich soil’;

Productiveadjective

producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities

‘the most productive employees’;

Productiveadjective

relating to or engaged in the production of goods, crops, or other commodities

‘the country's productive capacity’;

Productiveadjective

achieving a significant amount or result

‘the therapy sessions became more productive’; ‘a long and productive career’;

Productiveadjective

producing or giving rise to

‘the hotel was not productive of amusing company’;

Productiveadjective

(of a prefix, suffix, or other linguistic unit) currently used in forming new words or expressions

‘many suffixes are common and productive’;

Productiveadjective

(of a cough) that raises mucus from the respiratory tract.