costive
adjectiveHow many syllables in costive?
There are 2 syllables in the word costive.How to pronounce costive:
Definition of costive:
- costive (adjective):
- affected with constipation
Synonyms for costive:
acquisitive
avaricious
chary
cheap
close
closefisted
covetous
desirous
frugal
hoggish
illiberal
itchy
mingy
miserly
niggardly
parsimonious
penurious
petty
selfish
small
spare
sparing
stingy
stinting
thrifty
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Antonyms for costive:
away
beneficent
benignant
bounteous
bountiful
charitable
extravagant
far
free
free-handed
freehanded
generous
giving
hospitable
indulgent
lavish
liberal
magnanimous
munificent
obliging
open-handed
openhanded
prodigal
spendthrift
uneconomical
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Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- despoiled
- ensconced
- gimmick
- Loewe
- maestro
- broadly
- pamper
- Tory
- sorest
- prances
- Harva
- forsee
- beshrew
- Maona
- acre
- bald-faced
- swishing
- endow
- yearning
- loading
- forenoon
- trainer
- abase
- gangly
- binded
- kinsfolk
- spoilsport
- quae
- sexy
- polite
- cajole
- escape
- hog score
- bigger
- amused
- protect
- passion
- naughty
- morning
- troubled
- averred
- flickered
- shouted
- vacant
- symbol
- loosely
- morsel
- dispel
- sentient
- forlorn
- … more
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