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NOUN (1)

1. a person with pulmonary tuberculosis;
[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]