[
UK
/kənsˈʌmptɪv/
]
ADJECTIVE
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tending to consume or use often wastefully
duties consumptive of time and energy
water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses
consumptive fires -
afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
a consumptive patient
a consumptive cough
NOUN
- a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
How To Use consumptive In A Sentence
- duties consumptive of time and energy
- a consumptive patient
- She performs abortions in secret, supports suffrage, and caters to consumptives and TB sufferers when few other boarding-house establishments will take them.
- And if climate scientists are right, the cause of our problems is manic, consumptive, fossil-fuel driven human activity.
- In clinical, economic terms, with children comes the arrival of non-productive yet highly consumptive members of the household.
- His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptivethat hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. Chapter 3
- Nevertheless to those weak habits with pale skins and large pupils of the eyes, whose degree of irritability is less than health requires, as in scrofulous, hysterical, and sonic consumptive constitutions, Note VII
- the consumptive habitus
- His face, almost in profile, shows a high coloring that is close to feverish and no doubt reflects his consumptive state.
- consumptive fires
