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Consumptive

Consumptive Meaning & Definition
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

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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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