Usually means: Slow or reluctant in action.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. costively: Merriam-Webster
  2. costively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. costively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. costively: Vocabulary.com
  5. costively: Wordnik
  6. costively: Wiktionary
  7. Costively, costively: Dictionary.com
  8. Costively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. costively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Costively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. costively: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Costively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. costively: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. costively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. costively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (costively)

▸ adverb:  In a costive manner.

Similar:
costately, constatively, intercostally, constipatedly, covinously, expensefully, costolaterally, conatively, fastuously, conventually, more...

Opposite:
freely, openly, loosely, unreservedly

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Similar:
costately, constatively, intercostally, constipatedly, covinously, expensefully, costolaterally, conatively, fastuously, conventually, more...

Opposite:
freely, openly, loosely, unreservedly



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