consumptive

consumptive
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Consumptive — Con*sump tive, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • consumptive — index fatal, harmful Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • consumptive — early 15c. (adj.), wasteful, also with reference to pulmonary consumption, from L. consumpt , stem of consumere (see CONSUME (Cf. consume)) + IVE (Cf. ive). As a noun, attested from late 14c …   Etymology dictionary

  • consumptive — [kən sump′tiv] adj. [ME consumpt < L consumptus (see CONSUMPTION) + IVE] 1. consuming or tending to consume; destructive or wasteful 2. of, having, or relating to tuberculosis of the lungs n. a person who has tuberculosis of the lungs… …   English World dictionary

  • consumptive — Relating to, or suffering from, consumption. * * * con·sump·tive səm(p) tiv adj of, relating to, or affected with consumption <a consumptive cough> <a consumptive child> con·sump·tive·ly adv consumptive n an individual affected with… …   Medical dictionary

  • consumptive — [[t]kənsʌ̱mptɪv[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis. [OLD FASHIONED] He took her on tour of Europe, but the travel only hastened her consumptive decline and death …   English dictionary

  • consumptive — 1. adjective a) Having a tendency to consume. consumptive cough b) Of, or relating to consumption. 2. noun A person suffering of pulmonary tuberculosis …   Wiktionary

  • consumptive — con|sump|tive [kənˈsʌmptıv] n old fashioned someone with ↑tuberculosis >consumptive adj …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • consumptive — adjective a word used in the past to describe someone who had the lung disease tuberculosis consumptive noun (C) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • consumptive — consumption ► NOUN 1) the action or process of consuming. 2) an amount consumed. 3) dated a wasting disease, especially tuberculosis. DERIVATIVES consumptive adjective & noun (dated ) …   English terms dictionary

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