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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun consumptive has 1 sense
- consumptive(n = noun.person) lunger, tubercular - a person with pulmonary tuberculosis; Array is a kind of diseased person, sick person, sufferer
Adjective consumptive has 2 senses
- consumptive(a = adj.all) Array - tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" Derived forms verb consume2, verb consume5
- consumptive(s = adj.all) Array - afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
Antonym: generative
CIDE DICTIONARY
consumptive, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.].
- Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. [1913 Webster]"It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time." [1913 Webster]"A long consumptive war." [1913 Webster]
- Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. [1913 Webster]"The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed." [1913 Webster]
consumptive, n.
One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
consumptive, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or tending to consumption.
2 tending to or affected with pulmonary tuberculosis.
--n. a consumptive patient.
--adj.
1 of or tending to consumption.
2 tending to or affected with pulmonary tuberculosis.
--n. a consumptive patient.
Derivative
consumptively adv.
Etymology
med.L consumptivus (as consumption)
THESAURUS
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
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