All costive synonyms
cos·tive
C c adj costive
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- cheap — Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
- close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- frugal — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- miserly — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- penny-pinching — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- tight — firmly or closely fixed in place; not easily moved; secure: a tight knot.
- tightfisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
- blocked — If something is blocked or blocked up, it is completely closed so that nothing can get through it.
- clogged — to hinder or obstruct with thick or sticky matter; choke up: to clog a drain.
adjective costive
- stingy — having a sting.
adverb costive
- slowly — in a slow manner; at a slow speed: Sauté the peppers slowly. I drove slowly back home.