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Definition: Constitutive |
ConstitutiveAdjective1. Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "constitutive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Synonyms: ConstitutiveSynonyms: constituent(a) (adj), constitutional (adj), constitutive(a) (adj), organic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Constitutive |
| English words defined with "constitutive": Constitutively ♦ Hypostatical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "constitutive": Chaperonins ♦ flow law ♦ Genes, jun ♦ Proto-Oncogene Protein c-kit, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun ♦ reflected setting. (references) |
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Civil Liberties | Morocco | However, it held its constitutive assembly on November 10. More than 2,500 founding members attended, electing a national council, as well as electing Lahjouji as temporary chairman. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Constitutive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Constitutive" is used about 129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 129 | 28,132 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "constitutive": constitutive equation. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "constitutive": knowledge-constitutive, non-constitutive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
constitutive equation | 4 |
constitutive definition | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "constitutive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | themelor (basal, basic, Cardinal, essential, fundamental, main, primal, primary, prime, principal, radical, seminal, ultimate, underlying), bazor (basal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قوامي, تأسيسي (constituent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съставен (built up, complex, component, composite, compositive, constituent, elemental, integrate), учредителен, в структурата (textural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "构性. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | konstitutivní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | konstitutiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | constitutieve expressie, constitutief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ترکیب کننده (Component), تشکیل دهنده (Former, Fundametal), ساختمانی (Physiological, Structural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | konstitutiivisuus, konstitutiivinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | constitutif (constituent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Konstitutivität, konstitutiv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστατικός (component, constituent), ιδιότητα ιδιοσυστασίας, ιδιοσυστασιακός, ιδιοσυστατικότητα, ιδιοσυστατικός (constitutional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alkotó (artificer, begetter, builder, coiner, component, composer, constituent, creative, creator, generative, generator, generatrix, maker, originator, procreative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | costitutivo, costitutivit , gene costitutivo, formativo (formative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 구성하" (Composed, made-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-yantyssagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onstitutivecay constitutivo, legislativo (law-making, legislative), formativo (formative). (various references) constitutiv (composing, constituent), component (component, composing, compound, constituent, elemental, integrant, integrate), esenţial (capital, constituent, elemental, essential, fundamental, indispensable, main, meat, prime, principal, vital), alcãtuitor (component). (various references) существенный (essential, intrinsic, material, mattery, substantial, very basic, vital), устанавливающий, составной (built up, complex, component, composite, compound, constituent, link, made, made up, multiple, sectional). (various references) ustavan. (various references) constitutivo (constituent). (various references) konstitutiv, grundläggande (basic, elemental, essential, fundamental, primal, ultimate, underlying). (various references) yapıcı (constructive, monger), temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundament, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), oluşturan (constituent, creative), kurucu (builder, constituent, creator, erector, father, floater, founder, foundress, framer, incorporator, promoter), esas (authentic, basal, base, basic, basis, beginnings, broad, central, corner stone, element, elemental, essence, extract, footing, fortification, foundation, fundamental, guiding, heartbeat, intrinsic, main, master, nub, parent, pith, pith and marrow, pivotal, postulate, principal, principle, quiddity, radical, staple, substance, sum, the merits, the nub, ultimate, underlying). (various references) істотний (appreciable, essential, integrant, significant, substantial, substantive), установчий (consistent, constituent, institutive), конструктивний (architectonic, constructive). (various references) cấu th nh (component), th nh lập tổ chức cơ bản chủ yếu, lập th nh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "constitutive": constitutively. (additional references) | |
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"Constitutive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consitutive, constituative, constituitive, constituitve, constitututed, contestative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "constitutive" (pronounced 'Con"sti*tu`tive'): Administrative, Frigefactive, Manumotive, Procreative, Resolutive, Substitutive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-n-o-s-t-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: constitute. | |
-3 letters: evictions, institute. | |
-4 letters: counties, cutinise, eviction, invoices, nittiest, nuttiest, osteitic, stenotic, stiction, tonetics, tuitions, unvoices, viscount. | |
-5 letters: contest, contuse, costive, cuisine, cutties, envious, eosinic, incites, inosite, intuits, invites, invoice, niveous, notices, novices, outvies, scottie, section, stouten, suction, tenutos, tiniest, titties, tonetic, toniest, tuition, tutties, unities, unitive, unvoice, uveitic, uveitis, vicious, viniest. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-n-o-s-t-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: constitutively. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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