costive

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒstɪv/    美 /ˈkɑstɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Constipated.
    — When I was mortall, this my costiue corps / Did lap vp Figs and Raisons in the Strand, / Where sitting I espi'd a louely Dame, / Whose maister wrought with Lingell and with All, / And vnder ground he vampied many a boote.
  2. Miserly, parsimonious. informal
    — Well, the shoemaker and his wife, Louise, may have been poor, needy, indigent, destitute, impecunious and impoverished — at least before the elves came along — but they had never been parsimonious, costive, miserly, penny-pinching or stinting. They were far from being avaricious, rapacious, mean or greedy. The shoemaker was uxorious about his wife, Louise, but he had never been usurious, even when he had money to lend […]

词形变化

more costive comparative most costive superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
costively costiveness

词源

From Middle French costivé, past participle of costiver (“to constipate”), ultimately from Latin cōnstīpātus (“constipated”). Doublet of constipate.
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