complexional
Pertaining to one's physical composition; constitutional.
Adjective
- Pertaining to one's physical composition; constitutional.
- Pertaining to one's mental disposition; temperamental.
- From hence arises the complexional disposition of some of your guides to pull every thing in pieces. - 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
- Pertaining to the complexion of the skin.
Origin
Etymology tree English complexion Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English complexional From complexion + -al.