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English Dictionary: consumptive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for consumptive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
consumptive adj tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" Antonym(s): generative, productive afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" n a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive, lunger, tubercular]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consumptive \Consump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It [prayer] is not consumptive* or our time. --Sharp. A long consumptive war. --Addison. 2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.