Definition for Costive:

• Having the motion of the bowels too slow.

Synonyms for Costive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • costive.
  •bound (adjective)
  • constipated.
  •constipated (adjective)
  • clogged,
  • blocked,
  • plugged,
  • obstructed.
  •hard-fisted (adjective)
  • more niggard,
  • hard fisted,
  • most niggardly,
  • most niggard.
  •penurious (adjective)
  • most curmudgeonly,
  • most scrimping,
  • most hoarding,
  • most pinchpenny,
  • un-giving,
  • un-charitable,
  • un charitable,
  • un-generous,
  • more ungiving,
  • more pinchpenny,
  • more curmudgeonly,
  • more hoarding,
  • penny pinching,
  • most ungiving,
  • more scrimping,
  • close fisted,
  • more pennywise,
  • un giving,
  • un generous,
  • most pennywise.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • scurvy,
  • frugal,
  • ironfisted.

• adv.

  •slowly (adverb)
  • un hurried,
  • un-hurried.

• n.

  •
  • mean,
  • penurious,
  • cheap,
  • miserly,
  • give,
  • close,
  • tight,
  • petty,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • tightfisted,
  • parsimonious.
  •binding (noun)
  • binding.
  •constipating (noun)
  • constipating.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Pinching,
  • penny-pinching,
  • close-fisted.

Antonyms for Costive:

• adj.

  • all
    laxative.
  • Other antonyms:
    cathartic, aperient, purgative, evacuant.

Costive Sentence Examples:

• There is usually marked thirst, the bowels are costive, and dung is passed with pain and effort.

• Hard Stools proceed from costive Claret; Yet mortal Man cannot forbear it.

Homophones for Costive:

• cheese dip, cut-up, cassette tape, caitiff, cut off, cutoff, caught up, cheesed off, chat up, cydippea, codify, cogitative, cast-off, cast off, city boy, cut of beef, causative, cut up, check stub, catawba, citify, cookstove.