Constructive vs Beneficial - What's the difference?
constructive | beneficial | Synonyms |
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.
Helpful or good to something or someone.
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As adjectives the difference between constructive and beneficial
is that constructive is relating to or causing construction while beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone.constructive
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) productiveAntonyms
* (relating to or causing construction) destructive * (carefully considered and meant to be helpful) destructiveDerived terms
* constructive criticism * constructive dismissal * constructive eviction * constructive notice * constructive logic * constructive trust * constructively * constructiveness * constructivism * deconstructive * inconstructive * unconstructive ----beneficial
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(en adjective)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}