consumptive meaning

• Adjective: consumptive  kun'súmptiv
  1. Tending to consume or use often wastefully
     "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" 
  2. Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
     "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
  Noun: consumptive  kun'súmptiv
  1. A person with pulmonary tuberculosis
     - lunger, tubercular

  Derived forms: consumptives

  See also: consume, exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive, ill, sick

  Type of: diseased person, sick person, sufferer

  Antonym: generative

  Encyclopedia: Consumptive

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  [Medicine]
  adj : of, relating to, or affected with consumption ‹a consumptive cough› ‹a consumptive child› — con·sump·tive·ly adv
  n : an individual affected with consumption
  

• Thoughts about starting a rural consumptive market
• Mozi's consumptive ethic and its modern value
• Countermeasures to enlarge the consumptive demand
• Factor analysis on residential consumptive structure in china
• The study of social significance on female consumptive culture
• Studies on consumptive investigation amount list
• Popularization and consumptive psychology of green building materials
• The consumptive policy of snack culture : an exaggerating homeliness
• Analyzing the consumptive structure of urban residents in heilongjiang
• A kind of low powerful consumptive sensor of gas applied in mine

• "consumptive" meaning in Chinese: adj. 1.消费的；消耗性的。2.痨[结核]病的。 短语和例子 consumptive warfare 消耗战...
• "consumptive" meaning in Japanese: {名} : 〈古〉肺病患者｛はいびょう かんじゃ｝---------------------------------...
• "consumptive" meaning in Russian: 1) туберкулезный больной, чахоточный, легочник2) предраспо...
• "consumptive" meaning in French: adj. tuberculeux