laxative

noun

1. a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.

adjective

2. of, relating to, or constituting a laxative; purgative.
3. Archaic.
   1. (of the bowels) subject to looseness.
   2. (of a disease) characterized by looseness of the bowels.

noun

1. an agent stimulating evacuation of faeces

adjective

2. stimulating evacuation of faeces

adj.late 14c., from Old French laxatif (13c.), from Medieval Latin laxativus “loosening,” from Latin laxatus, past participle of laxare “loosen,” from laxus “loose, lax” (see lax). The noun meaning “a laxative medicine” is from late 14c. n.

1. A food or drug that stimulates evacuation of the bowels.

adj.

1. Stimulating evacuation of the bowels.