constitutive
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for constitutive
Synonyms
built-in, constitutional, essential, hardwired, immanent, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrain, ingrained (also engrained), inherent, innate, integral, intrinsic, native, natural
Antonyms
adventitious, extraneous, extrinsic
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But in another sense, as the historian Edmund Morgan argued so powerfully nearly half a century ago, slavery and freedom were not at odds, but integrally intertwined, even mutually constitutive. — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, "Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood," 18 July 2019 There is no experience outside these constitutive conditions. — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, "Anthony Kennedy and the Death of True American Conservatism," 29 June 2018 In such situations, space is not just a background canvas, but becomes constitutive of the utopian. — Longreads, "Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now," 21 Jan. 2017 These days, opposition to the other party not only defines political discourse but is becoming a constitutive element of people’s identities. — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, "Money Isn’t Everything on the Campaign Trail," 29 Sep. 2017 And being true to itself means understanding that our constitutive principles apply beyond our borders. — William A. Galston, WSJ, "What Does Trump Mean by ‘the West’?," 11 July 2017 Like The Passion of the Christ, Detroit’s violence is its constitutive feature. — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, "Is Detroit’s Violence Gratuitous?," 8 Aug. 2017 Indeed, disability — both mental and physical —is socially constructed in ways comparable to, and mutually constitutive of, the construction of race and gender. — Sari Botton, Longreads, "‘They Used Deadly Force to Subdue Her’," 2 Aug. 2017 Likewise, social changes, if more than accidental occurrences, if constitutive of moral goodness, are products of imaginative constructions and presuppose the will to make the ‘ — Sam Roberts, New York Times, "Samuel D. Cook, Educator Who Pierced Campus Color Barriers, Dies at 88," 8 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'constitutive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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constitutive
adjective
, kən-ˈstich-ət-iv
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