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Constipated vs Costive - What's the difference?

constipated | costive |

As adjectives the difference between constipated and costive

is that constipated is unable to defecate while costive is constipated.

As a verb constipated

is past tense of constipate.

constipated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to defecate.

    • Related terms

    * constipation

    Verb

    (head)
  • (constipate)

    • See also

    * laxative

    costive

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • constipated
  • miserly, parsimonious

    • Quotations

    ; constipated (figurative) * 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, page 346: *: Melanie, who was used to Wani's costive memos, and even to dressing up the gist of a letter in her own words, stuck out her tongue in concentration as she took down Nick's old-fashioned periods and perplexing semicolons.