Definition of CONSTITUTIONAL

constitutional

Meanings

Plural: constitutionals

Noun

  • a regular walk taken as a form of exercise
  • Something that aids or fosters one's constitution (health):
  • A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing.
  • Something that aids or fosters one's constitution (health):
  • An act of defecation.

Adjective

  • of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup
    • "constitutional walk"
  • sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
    • "the constitutional right of free speech"
    • "constitutional government"
    • "constitutional guarantees"

Adjective Satellite

  • existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
    • "a constitutional inability to tell the truth"
  • constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)

Adj

  • Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution or structure of one's body or mind.
  • For the benefit of one's constitution or health.
  • Relating to the constitution or composition of something; essential, fundamental.
  • Relating to a legal or political constitution (“the basic law of a nation or institution; the formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institution”).
  • In compliance with or valid under a legal or political constitution.
  • Of a monarch: having a purely ceremonial role, or possessing powers limited by a constitution rather than plenary or unlimited powers.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*ḱóm
From constitution + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statuō (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -tiōnem (accusative singular of -tiō).

Antonyms

anticonstitutional, nonconstitutional, unconstitutional

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