[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

1. constitutive (of something) forming a part, often an essential part, of something
   • ● Memory is constitutive of identity.
   • ● Poverty is a constitutive element of a particular form of economic growth.
   Collocations: Constitutive is used with these nouns:

   • element
2. having the power to establish or give organized existence to something
   • ● Democracy depends on the rule of law for its constitutive procedures.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin constitutivus, from constitut- ‘established’, from the verb constituere, from con- ‘together’ + statuere ‘set up’.

[TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲