consumptive

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: con=sump=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

consumptive, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.].

•  Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.  [1913 Webster]

  "It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time."  [1913 Webster]

  "A long consumptive war."  [1913 Webster]
•  Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.  [1913 Webster]

  "The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed."  [1913 Webster]

consumptive, n. 

 One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

consumptive, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or tending to consumption.
2 tending to or affected with pulmonary tuberculosis.
--n. a consumptive patient.

Derivative

consumptively adv.

Etymology

med.L consumptivus (as consumption)

THESAURUS

consumptive

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