Definition of costive Costive
cos•tive
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What does costive mean?
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Adjectivecostive, costiver, costivest |
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| costive - retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating |
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- costive (Adjective)
constipated. - costive (Adjective)
miserly, parsimonious.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- costive (a.)
Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated. - costive (a.)
Reserved; formal; close; cold. - costive (a.)
Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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costive
Suffering from constipation.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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kos′tiv, adj. having the motion of the bowels too slow: constipated.—adv. Cos′tively.—n. Cos′tiveness, slowness in the action of the bowels. [Fr. constipé. See Constipate.]
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