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consumptive

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
con=sump=tive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun consumptive has 1 sense

Adjective consumptive has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

consumptivea. [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]
consumptiven. 
     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.

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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