consumptive
tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
relating to consumption by use.
Pathology.
relating to or of the nature of consumption.
disposed to or affected with consumption.
Older Use. a person with tuberculosis.
Origin of consumptive
1Other words from consumptive
- con·sump·tive·ly, adverb
- con·sump·tive·ness, noun
- non·con·sump·tive, adjective
- non·con·sump·tive·ly, adverb
- non·con·sump·tive·ness, noun
- un·con·sump·tive, adjective
- un·con·sump·tive·ly, adverb
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How to use consumptive in a sentence
The middle class became more conspicuously consumptive than ever before.
Farewell to Manmohan Singh, India’s Puppet Prime Minister | Kapil Komireddi | January 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWatching it in public, on the other hand, exposes these films as just another method of molding of our consumptive urges.
The owner—the consumptive, I call him, as his night work has damaged his lungs—grew very friendly one day, and confidential.
The Chequers | James RuncimanThe consumptive is, as I have said, a man of great resource; but he has for once been within a hair's breadth of disaster.
The Chequers | James RuncimanThe consumptive bends over his work, fearfully eyeing the keeper's measuring stick.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
Hippocrates pointed out as one of the symptoms of consumption the spes phthisical or consumptive hope.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIt was made up of a consumptive wife, a young husband and one or two children.
Marriage la mode | Mrs. Humphry Ward
British Dictionary definitions for consumptive
/ (kənˈsʌmptɪv) /
causing consumption; wasteful; destructive
pathol relating to or affected with consumption, esp tuberculosis of the lungs
pathol a person who suffers from consumption
Derived forms of consumptive
- consumptively, adverb
- consumptiveness, noun
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