Definitions for: Consumptive

[n] a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
[adj] tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
[adj] afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"

Webster (1913) Definition: Con*sump"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.

Con*sump"tive, n.
One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive, ill, lunger, sick

Antonyms: generative, productive

See Also: diseased person, sick person, sufferer

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