constitutive

constitutive

adjective

Definition of CONSTITUTIVE

being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing <the proposition that liberty and justice are constitutive elements of an enlightened society>

Synonyms built-in, constitutional, constitutive, essential, hardwired, immanent, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrain, ingrained (also engrained), innate, integral, intrinsic, native, natural

Related Words basic, deep-rooted, elemental, fundamental; congenital, hereditary, inherited, inmost, inner, interior; internal; characteristic, distinctive, peculiar; habitual, inveterate; normal, regular, typical

Near Antonyms alien, foreign; accidental, coincidental, incidental; acquired, adscititious; superficial, surface; exterior, external

Antonyms adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic