different between inbred vs constitutional

English

Pronunciation

• (attributive adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /??n?b??d/
• (predicative adjective, verb) IPA^(key): /??n?b??d/, /??n?b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

inbred (comparative more inbred, superlative most inbred)

1. Bred within; innate.
   • 1899, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age/A White-washed Uncle

     We who from daily experience knew Miss Smedley like a book—were we not only too well aware that she had neither accomplishments nor charms—no characteristic, in fact, but an inbred viciousness of temper and disposition?

   • 1666, John Bryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders

     His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.

2. (often derogatory) Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
3. (genetics) Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.

Synonyms

• (bred within): inborn, indigenous; See also Thesaurus:innate
• (having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding):
• (of a population of genetically identical individuals):

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Verb

inbred

1. simple past tense and past participle of inbreed
   • 1920, Chesla Clella Sherlock, Care and Management of Rabbits Chapter 3

     People discovered that the Belgian hare of those days was a very delicate animal and that it was subject to many diseases. It had been inbred so long in order to produce show animals that its vitality was nearly gone.

Noun

inbred (plural inbreds)

1. (vulgar) An inbred individual.

   Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.

Anagrams

• Binder, Birden, Bredin, bendir, binder, brined, rebind

English

Etymology

From constitution +? -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin c?nstit?ti?, c?nstit?ti?nem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from c?nstitu? (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statu? (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”))) + -ti? (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -ti?nem (accusative singular of -ti?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nst??tju??(?)n(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nst??t(j)u?(?)n(?)l/, /-st?-/
• Hyphenation: con?sti?tu?tion?al

Adjective

constitutional (comparative more constitutional, superlative most constitutional)

1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution or structure of one's body or mind.

2. For the benefit of one's constitution or health.

3. Relating to the constitution or composition of something; essential, fundamental.
4. (law)
   1. Relating to a legal or political constitution (“the basic law of a nation or institution; the formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institution”).
   2. In compliance with or valid under a legal or political constitution.

      Antonyms: anticonstitutional, nonconstitutional, unconstitutional

   3. (also politics) Of a monarch: having a purely ceremonial role, or possessing powers limited by a constitution rather than plenary or unlimited powers.

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Noun

constitutional (plural constitutionals)

1. A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing.

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References

Further reading

• constitution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• constitution (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia