Word Meanings - CONSTITUTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness. 2. In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society;

Additional info about word: CONSTITUTIONAL

1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness. 2. In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms. 3. Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights. Hallam. 4. Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis. The anient constitutional traditions of the state. Macaulay. 5. For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk. Constitutional law, law that relates to the constitution, as a permanent system of political and juridical government, as distinguished from statutory and common law, which relate to matters subordinate to such constitution.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSTITUTIONAL)

• Lawful
• Legal
• permissible
• orderly
• right
• allowable
• fair
• constitutional
• rightful
• legitimate
• Legitimate
• lawful
• juridical
• Organic
• Fundamental
• radical
• Proper
• Peculiar
• appertinent
• personal
• own
• special
• befitting
• adapted
• suited
• suitable
• appropriate
• just
• equitable
• decent
• becoming
• fit

Related words: (words related to CONSTITUTIONAL)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• FUNDAMENTALLY
  Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.
• RIGHTEOUS
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
• LEGITIMATE
  1. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. 2. Lawfully begotten;
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.