- having a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened and evacuation is difficult and infrequent: Most constipated people need more fluids and fiber.
- slow-moving or immobilized, as by overregulation, backlogs, etc.: Such an approach only adds to a bloated bureaucracy and constipated decision-making.
- overly stiff, repressed, or conventional; uptight: She describes her husband as “emotionally constipated.”
- suffering from constipation
- subject to restriction or blockage in a flow of productive activity or creativity
