'Consumptive' definitions:
Definition of 'consumptive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" [ant: generative, productive]
adjective
Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
noun
A person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive, lunger, tubercular]
Definition of 'Consumptive'
From: GCIDE
- Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. [1913 Webster]
- It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]
- A long consumptive war. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. [1913 Webster]
- The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Consumptive'
From: GCIDE
- Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'consumptive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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