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"

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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• forgiveness
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• forgivingness
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• fork
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• forked
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• forkful
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• forklift
• forklift truck
• forlorn