1.
[syn: consumptive, lunger, tubercular]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. tending to consume or use often wastefully;
- Example: "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"
- Example: "duties consumptive of time and energy"
- Example: "consumptive fires"
2. afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis;
- Example: "a consumptive patient"
- Example: "a consumptive cough"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n.
One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.]
1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of
consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
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It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp.
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A long consumptive war. --Addison.
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2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
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The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
--Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
consumptive
adj 1: tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water
suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties
consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
[ant: generative, productive]
2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a
consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
n 1: a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive,
lunger, tubercular]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "consumptive":
allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, astringent, baneful,
bilious, calamitous, cancerous, case, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, chlorotic, colicky, collapsible, compactable,
compressible, constringent, consuming, contractible, contractile,
contractional, contractive, deadly, deflationary, demolishing,
demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive,
devastating, disastrous, doomful, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous,
encephalitic, epileptic, fatal, fateful, foldable, fratricidal,
incurable, inpatient, internecine, invalid, laryngitic, leprous,
luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic,
neuritic, nihilist, nihilistic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic,
patient, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic,
ravaging, rheumatic, rickety, ruining, ruinous, scorbutic,
scrofulous, self-destructive, shut-in, sick person, spastic,
styptic, subversionary, subversive, sufferer, suicidal, tabetic,
tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous,
tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian, vandalic, vandalish,
vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering