Costive

Definition: Costive

Costive

Adjective

1. Retarding evacuation of feces.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "costive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Taciturnity

Taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive, inconversable, curt; reserved; reticent; (concealing).

Crosswords: Costive

Albanian

që të bën kaps, kaps (constipated). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страдащ от запек, свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous), муден (backward, bovine, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), запечен (bound, confined), запичащ, причиняващ запек. (various references)

German

geizig (avaricious, avariciously, illiberal, mean, miserly, parsimonious, parsimoniously, penurious, penuriously, stingily, stingy, thrifty, tight-fisted). (various references)

Greek 

δυσκοίλιοσ (constipated). (various references)

Hungarian

zsugori (avaricious, churlish, curmudgeon, fisty, mingy, miser, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, screw, screwy, shabby, skinflint, sordid, stingy, thrifty, tightwad, to flay a flint). (various references)

Italian

stitico (constipated). (various references)

Manx

thartagh (bound, bound constipated), kianglt (anchored, baled, connected, constipated, constrained, locked, secured, shackled, slurred, strapped, tied, tied up). (various references)

Pig Latin

ostivecay.(various references)

Portuguese

com prisão de ventre (constipated), miserável (abject, dismal, evil, godforsaken, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome). (various references)

Romanian

constipat (constipated, sour-tempered), zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, petty, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, stingy, trivial). (various references)

Russian 

скуповатый, медлительный (dilatory, laggard, lingering, slack, slow, slowcoach, sluggish, tardy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koji pati od opstipacije. (various references)

Spanish

estreñido (constipated). (various references)

Swedish

knusslig (cheeseparing, close, illiberal, parsimonious, skimpy, stingy, ungenerous). (various references)

Thai

ชักช้า (behindhand). (various references)

Turkish

cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), kabız (stoppage), hasis (hard-fisted, mean, parsimonious, rapacious, Scrooge, spare, stingy, vile). (various references)

Ukrainian

коштовний (costly, expensive, oriental, pearly, precious, sumptuous), повільний (creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, leisurely, lingering, logy, slack, slow, sluggish, snail-paced, sulky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

táo bón keo kiệt, h� tiện (miserly, narrow-fisted, stintingly), diễn đạt không thanh thoát, bủn xỉn viết khó khăn. (various references)

Welsh

bolrwym (constipated). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "costive": costively, costiveness, costivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Costive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cistine, cooptive, Cortivo, coside, costage, Costie, costif, costof, cotside, cultivi, Custine, Custnie, Kostev, Kpotivi. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cestoi, civets, covets, evicts, soviet, voices.

-2 letters: cesti, cites, civet, coset, cosie, cotes, coves, covet, escot, evict, stoic, stove, vices, voces, voice, votes.

-3 letters: cist, cite, cost, cote, cots, cove, etic, ices, otic, scot, sect, sice, site, tics, ties, toes, vest, veto, vets, vice, vies, vise, voes, vote.

-4 letters: cis, cos, cot, ice, its.

+1 letter: cheviots, evictors, vicomtes, vortices.

+2 letters: coinvents, contrives, costively, evections, evictions, invocates, livestock, locatives, muscovite, outvoices, victories, vocatives, vorticose.

+3 letters: advections, coinvestor, combustive, congestive, constative, consultive, contrivers, covellites, evocations, livestocks, muscovites, novelistic, objectives, overtricks, reconvicts, tovariches, vasoactive, velocities, ventricose, viscometer, viscometry, vivisector, vocalities, voracities.

+4 letters: associative, coevalities, coextensive, cofavorites, coinventors, coinvestors, collectives, concavities, connectives, consecutive, constatives, consumptive, contrastive, convections, conventions, convexities, copulatives, correctives, costiveness, declivitous, equivocates, evacuations, excavations, inchoatives, insectivore, locomotives, novaculites, objectivism, objectivist, obstructive, outachieves, overactions, overcasting, overcommits, overdirects, overexcites, postdivorce, prospective, recitativos, revocations, suffocative, syncopative, vacationers, vasectomies, vasectomize, venesection, viscometers, viscometric, viscosities, viscountess, viscounties, vivisection, vivisectors, vociferates, voiceprints, vorticellas, vorticities, voyeuristic.