constitutional |
1. adj. Relating to a legal or political constitution. | |
a constitutional right | |
constitutional reforms | |
Brexit has rocked the foundations and plunged everyone into a state of heightened constitutional anxiety. | |
Some in Westminster are already speculating that it would cause a constitutional crisis | |
2. adj. Conforming to a legal or political constitution. | |
The UK Government’s White Paper, ‘The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union’ pledges ‘continued adherence to the constitutional framework, rights and institutio | |
Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements. Treaty on European Union. | |
3. adj. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind. | |
a constitutional infirmity | |
constitutional ardour or dullness | |
4. adj. For the benefit of one's constitution or health. | |
a constitutional walk | |
5. n. (nominalized adjective) | |
6. n. A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing. | |
ardour |
|
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
dullness |
1. n. The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity. | |
2. n. The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome. | |
3. n. Lack of interest or excitement. | |
4. n. The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen. | |
5. n. (of an edge) bluntness. | |
6. n. The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly. | |
7. n. (archaic) Drowsiness. | |