Costive

Definition:

• (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
• (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
• (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Compare costive with other words:

costive vs. costiveness

costive vs. facies

costive vs. parsimonious

costive vs. miserly

constipated vs. costive