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Constructional vs Constructive - What's the difference?

constructional | constructive |

As adjectives the difference between constructional and constructive

is that constructional is of, pertaining to, or obtained by construction while constructive is relating to or causing construction.

constructional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or obtained by construction.
  • * 1862 Alexander Penrose Forbes -Sermons on the grace of God and other cognate subjects
    • What mortal conception of constructional power and grace can equal the gothic cathedral of the middle age, in which we see a proportion and a delicacy . . .
  • * 1869 The universal decorator
    • No other constructional features projecting from the walls occur in any of these buildings, with the single exception of buttresses

    constructive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to or causing construction.
  • Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
  • (legal) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive notice or a constructive trust.

    • Synonyms

    * (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) productive

    Antonyms

    * (relating to or causing construction) destructive * (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) destructive

    Derived terms

    * constructive criticism * constructive dismissal * constructive eviction * constructive notice * constructive logic * constructive trust * constructively * constructiveness * constructivism * deconstructive * inconstructive * unconstructive ----