costive

Adjective

Meaning

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

Reserved; formal; close; cold.

Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.

Source: Webster's dictionary

curt miser certain close mean bound binding cheap tight costly foul economical petty avid greedy

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laxative beneficent free giving excessive generous

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costing nothing costing the earth costing too much costively costiveness costless