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con·sti·tu·tion·al | \ ˌkän(t)-stə-ˈtü-shnəl

, -shə-nᵊl, -ˈtyü- \

Definition of constitutional

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1 : relating to, inherent in, or affecting the constitution of body or mind

2 : of, relating to, or entering into the fundamental makeup of something : essential

3 : being in accordance with or authorized by the constitution of a state or society a constitutional government

4 : regulated by or ruling according to a constitution a constitutional monarchy

5 : of or relating to a constitution a constitutional crisis

6 : loyal to or supporting an established constitution or form of government

constitutional

noun

Definition of constitutional (Entry 2 of 2)

: a walk taken for one's health

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Adjective the constitutional guarantee of free speech a constitutional right to vote Constitutional symptoms of the disease include headache and fever. He has a constitutional dislike of controversy. Noun She's gone out for her morning constitutional. went for my evening constitutional in the park See More

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Assuming the majority opinion tracks with what was revealed in the leak, the nation's highest court will be eliminating a constitutional right that has stood for 49 years. — Damon Linker, The Week, 13 May 2022 There is little doubt that the draft Supreme Court decision that would end the 50-year-old constitutional right to control a pregnancy has presented Democrats with a political opportunity in an otherwise bleak political landscape. — New York Times, 12 May 2022 Yet this court has located such a constitutional right (for the unregistered handgun, at least). — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 May 2022 And that is, for the present, the most immediate and devastating effect of Alito’s language: the taking away of what had been deemed a constitutional right, one that millions of Americans had come to rely upon for decades. — Annette Gordon-reed, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2022 Petitioners also asked the Court to overturn precedent establishing a constitutional right to previability abortions, the end results of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. — Cara C. Heuser, Scientific American, 4 May 2022 Monday’s leak electrified the antiabortion movement, which has spent nearly half a century working to reverse the court’s 1973 decision that a woman has a constitutional right to end her pregnancy. — Washington Post, 4 May 2022 Ware, 20, who has a 2-year-old daughter, alleged prosecutors violated her constitutional right barring unlawful searches and seizures. — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022 The 1973 decision upheld that women had a constitutional right to privacy that extended to their decision to continue with a pregnancy, up until the point that a fetus could viably survive outside of the womb. — al, 3 May 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Supreme Court justices take two oaths, one judicial, and the other constitutional. — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020 Now more are on the streets, taking morning constitutionals, pushing strollers or riding bicycles wearing yellow kitchen gloves. — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 1 May 2020 If your mom loves to listen to music during her daily constitutionals, but is running out of her cache of CDs, a Spotify subscription will be a revelation. — Sara Hendricks, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2020 But the Rabbit kept going, disappearing into the mist long before Herr Doktor finished his constitutionals. — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 15 May 2018 Among the dissenting Islamist movements is the Saadet Party, a movement made up of ultraconservatives that in some ways is the intellectual predecessor to the AKP, but whose leadership actively campaigned against the April constitutional changes. — Umar Farooq, latimes.com, 10 May 2017 See More

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constitutional

adjective

con·sti·tu·tion·al | \ ˌkän-stə-ˈtü-shə-nᵊl

, -ˈtyü- \

Kids Definition of constitutional

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : having to do with a person's physical or mental makeup

2 : relating to or in agreement with a constitution (as of a nation) constitutional rights

constitutional

noun

Kids Definition of constitutional (Entry 2 of 2)

: a walk taken to maintain health

constitutional

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con·sti·tu·tion·al | \ -shnəl, -shən-ᵊl

Medical Definition of constitutional

: a walk taken for one's health

constitutional

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Legal Definition of constitutional

1 : consistent with or authorized by the constitution of a state or society constitutional rights

2 : regulated by, dependent on, or ruling according to a constitution a constitutional monarchy

3 : of, relating to, or dealing with a constitution or its interpretation, formulation, or amendment a constitutional convention constitutional lawyers