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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to costive, such as: cheap, close, close-fisted, frugal, miserly, and parsimonious.
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I finds un fine to hunt with, and 'tis not so costive as the others.
LEFT ON THE LABRADORDILLON WALLACEThe pulse is small, feeble and frequent, and the bowels costive.
AN EPITOME OF HOMEOPATHIC HEALING ARTB. L. HILLI was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
VEGETABLE DIET: AS SANCTIONED BY MEDICAL MEN, AND BY EXPERIENCE IN ALL AGESWILLIAM ANDRUS ALCOTTAll these facts have been proved before your Lordships by costive and unwilling witnesses.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XI. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEAs he was costive, pills of aloes and steel were ordered to be taken occasionally.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERINGOn the 15th, being costive, she took a jallap purge, and on the 24th she was discharged cured.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERINGThe hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air.
THE ART AND PRACTICE OF HAWKINGEDWARD B. MICHELLThe stool is rather costive, especially with larger children; but diarrhoea may attend this disease.
PROF. KOCH'S METHOD TO CURE TUBERCULOSIS POPULARLY TREATEDMAX BIRNBAUMI had a case of a calf that got very costive—so bad that it moaned dreadfully from pain.
CATTLE AND CATTLE-BREEDERSWILLIAM M'COMBIEThe active circulation of the digestive fluids ceases, and the sufferer is said to be costive or to have chronic diarrhea.
INTESTINAL ILLSALCINOUS BURTON JAMISONWORDS RELATED TO COSTIVE
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- chary
- cheap
- chintzy
- churlish
- close
- close-fisted
- costive
- covetous
- curmudgeonly
- economical
- extortionate
- frugal
- grasping
- greedy
- grudging
- hard-fisted
- ignoble
- illiberal
- ironfisted
- mean
- miserly
- narrow
- near
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- pennywise
- penurious
- petty
- pinchpenny
- rapacious
- saving
- scrimping
- scurvy
- selfish
- skimping
- sordid
- sparing
- thrifty
- tight
- tightfisted
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- ungiving
- acquisitive
- avaricious
- chary
- cheap
- chintzy
- churlish
- close
- close-fisted
- costive
- covetous
- curmudgeonly
- economical
- extortionate
- frugal
- grasping
- greedy
- grudging
- ignoble
- illiberal
- ironfisted
- mean
- miserly
- narrow
- near
- parsimonious
- pennywise
- penurious
- petty
- pinchpenny
- rapacious
- saving
- scrimping
- scurvy
- selfish
- skimping
- sordid
- sparing
- thrifty
- tightfisted
- uncharitable
- ungenerous
- ungiving
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.