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costive
[ kos-tiv, kaw-stiv ]
adjective
- suffering from constipation; constipated.
- slow in action or in expressing ideas, opinions, etc.
- Obsolete. stingy; tight-fisted.
costive
/ ˈ°ìÉ’²õ³Ùɪ±¹ /
adjective
- having constipation; constipated
- sluggish
- niggardly
Derived Forms
- ˈ³¦´Ç²õ³Ù¾±±¹±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
- ˈ³¦´Ç²õ³Ù¾±±¹±ð±ô²â, adverb
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦´Ç²õt¾±±¹±ð·±ô²â adverb
- ³¦´Ç²õt¾±±¹±ð·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of costive1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of costive1
Example Sentences
See them disappear into a k-hole while actually eating Special K to ease their costive and ageing bowels!
The second fragment or thesis treats of “disorders of the bowels,†which suggests already that the aphorist is a costive sort, disgorging small verities with considerable effort.
Silver service, indeed – the wings of flustered gulls were caught by the carvery’s shiny and retinal cover, their costive cries – Sheeeeit!
Movies coiled up in other movies have a habit of becoming either costive or cute, but somehow Falardeau avoids the traps.
His stories are carried along, too, by an exceptionally easygoing and seductive narrative voice, what the costive Henry James described as his acolyte’s enviable “flow.â€
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