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Consumptive

Consumptive Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Consumptive? [n] a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [adj] tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" [adj] afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Consumptive: exploitative \| exploitatory \| exploitive \| ill \| lunger \| sick Related Terms \| Find terms related to 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 See Also \| diseased person \| sick person \| sufferer Consumptive In Webster's Dictionary \Consump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp. A long consumptive war. --Addison. 2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. --Dryden. \Consump"tive\, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

Consumptive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Consumptive?

[n] a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
[adj] tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
[adj] afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"

See Also | diseased person | sick person | sufferer

Consumptive In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.]
1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of
   consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

         It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp.

         A long consumptive war.               --Addison.

2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.

         The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
                                               --Dryden.


\Con*sump"tive\, n.
One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

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