Constipated
ahd-5
adjective.
Affected with constipation.
adjective.
Stiff, stodgy, or recalcitrant.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Costive.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive.
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adjective.
Unable to
defecate
.
verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of
constipate
.
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adjective.
have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels
Word Usage
"This type of entrenched (some might call it constipated) thinking seems to permeate the large organizations that I've encountered in my life."
Antonyms
Words with the opposite meaning
loose
cross-reference
laxative
Equivalent
bound
Etymologically Related
constipation
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
blocked
bound
bound
choked
choked up
verb-stem
constipate