consumptive

consumptive
    adj 1: tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water
           suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties
           consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
           [ant: {generative}, {productive}]
    2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a
       consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
    n 1: a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: {consumptive},
         {lunger}, {tubercular}]
    

Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n.
   One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
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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.
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            It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp.
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            A long consumptive war.               --Addison.
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   2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
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            The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
                                                  --Dryden.
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100 Moby Thesaurus words for "consumptive":
      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