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consumptive

[ kuhn-suhmp-tiv ]

adjective

  1. tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
  2. relating to consumption by use.
  3. Pathology.
    1. relating to or of the nature of consumption.
    2. disposed to or affected with consumption.


noun

  1. Older Use. a person with tuberculosis.

consumptive

/ kənˈsʌmptɪv /

adjective

  1. causing consumption; wasteful; destructive
  2. pathol relating to or affected with consumption, esp tuberculosis of the lungs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. pathol a person who suffers from consumption
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • conˈsumptiveness, noun
  • conˈsumptively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • con·sump·tive·ly adverb
  • con·sump·tive·ness noun
  • non·con·sump·tive adjective
  • non·con·sump·tive·ly adverb
  • non·con·sump·tive·ness noun
  • un·con·sump·tive adjective
  • un·con·sump·tive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of consumptive1

First recorded in 1375–1425; Middle English adjective and noun consumptif “eliminating or reducing morbid humors or tissue; an agent that eliminates or reduces morbid humors or tissue,” from Medieval Latin consūmptīvum, noun use of adjective consūmptīvus “wasteful, destructive; suffering from pulmonary consumption”; consumption, -ive
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Example Sentences

The middle class became more conspicuously consumptive than ever before.

Watching it in public, on the other hand, exposes these films as just another method of molding of our consumptive urges.

The owner—the Consumptive, I call him, as his night work has damaged his lungs—grew very friendly one day, and confidential.

The Consumptive is, as I have said, a man of great resource; but he has for once been within a hair's breadth of disaster.

The consumptive bends over his work, fearfully eyeing the keeper's measuring stick.

Hippocrates pointed out as one of the symptoms of consumption the spes phthisical or consumptive hope.

It was made up of a consumptive wife, a young husband and one or two children.

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