Consumptive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n.
     One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.]
     1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of
        consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
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              It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp.
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              A long consumptive war.               --Addison.
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     2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
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              The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
                                                    --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  consumptive
       adj 1: tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable
              for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive
              of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" [ant: {generative}]
       2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a
          consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
       n : a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: {lunger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "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