constitutes

verbcomprise, form
verbauthorize

Synonyms for constitutes

verb comprise, form

Antonyms for constitutes

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., verb use of adjective constitute, "made up, formed" (late 14c.), from Latin constitutus "arranged, settled," past participle adjective from constituere "to cause to stand, set up, fix, place, establish, set in order; form something new; resolve," of persons, "to appoint to an office," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + statuere "to set," from PIE root *sta- "to stand," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing" (see stet). Related: Constituted; constituting.

Example Sentences for constitutes

It constitutes their best accomplishment, and their most shining ornament.

Because man, in so far as he is a part of nature, constitutes a part of the power of nature.

It is the use we make of the powers entrusted to us, which constitutes our only just claim to respect.

It is man who constitutes the changing, the experimenting, sex.

Nevertheless it constitutes the chief glory of the Sevillians.

But to define what constitutes happiness is very difficult, she replied.

It is, perhaps, what constitutes the ethereal condition of love.

The lofty nest, or Termitarium, constitutes a hillock in the form of a cupola.

Let us see what constitutes infidelity, irrespective of marriage.

But neither of these constitutes a specific difference of the kind we are in search of.