CONSTITUTIONAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does constitutional mean?
• CONSTITUTIONAL (noun)
The noun CONSTITUTIONAL has 1 sense:
1. a regular walk taken as a form of exercise
Familiarity information: CONSTITUTIONAL used as a noun is very rare.
• CONSTITUTIONAL (adjective)
The adjective CONSTITUTIONAL has 5 senses:
1. of or relating to a constitution
2. of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup
3. sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under a constitution
4. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
5. constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
Familiarity information: CONSTITUTIONAL used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• CONSTITUTIONAL (noun)
Meaning:
A regular walk taken as a form of exercise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("constitutional" is a kind of...):
walk (the act of walking somewhere)
• CONSTITUTIONAL (adjective)
Meaning:
Of or relating to a constitution
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
constitutional amendments
Pertainym:
constitution (law determining the fundamental political principles of a government)
Meaning:
Of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
constitutional walk
Pertainym:
constitution (the way in which someone or something is composed)
Meaning:
Sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under a constitution
Context examples:
the constitutional right of free speech / constitutional government / constitutional guarantees
Antonym:
unconstitutional (not consistent with or according to a constitution; contrary to the U.S. Constitution)
Meaning:
Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
Synonyms:
integral; inherent; inbuilt; built-in; constitutional
Context examples:
the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity / a constitutional inability to tell the truth
Similar:
intrinsic; intrinsical (belonging to a thing by its very nature)
Meaning:
Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
Synonyms:
constituent; constitutive; constitutional; organic
Similar:
essential (basic and fundamental)
