consumptive

con·sump·tive (k

n-s

adj.

1. Consuming or tending to consume.

2. Of, relating to, or afflicted with consumption.

A person afflicted with consumption.

con·sumptive·ly adv.

consumptive [kənˈsʌmptɪv]

adj

1. causing consumption; wasteful; destructive

2. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol relating to or affected with consumption, esp tuberculosis of the lungs

(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a person who suffers from consumption

consumptively adv

consumptiveness n

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Noun	1.	consumptive - a person with pulmonary tuberculosis tubercular, lunger diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
Adj.	1.	consumptive - tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" generative, productive - having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces"
	2.	consumptive - afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"

Translations

consumptive [kənˈsʌmptɪv] (Med)

A. ADJ → tísico

B. N → tísico/a m/f

consumptive [kənˈsʌmptɪv] adj (= tubercular) [person] → tuberculeux/euse

consumptive (old)

n → Schwindsüchtige(r) mf

adj → schwindsüchtig

consumptive [kənˈsʌmptɪv] adj & n (old) → tisico/a

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Caseous degeneration Consumptiveness diseased person exploitative exploitatory exploitive generative habitus hectic Houses lunger phthisic Phthisical Physical Appearance predisposition sensitivity sick person sufferer Tisic	There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context However, they formed themselves into line, all assisting, owing to the importance of the search; the dairyman at the upper end with Mr Clare, who had volunteered to help; then Tess, Marian, Izz Huett, and Retty; then Bill Lewell, Jonathan, and the married dairywomen--Beck Knibbs, with her wooly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water-meads--who lived in their respective cottages. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context With all its gifts and opportunities it was a melancholy life-- melancholy with something not altogether explained by the somewhat pessimistic philosophy exposed in the Journal, nor by the consumptive tendency of Amiel's physical constitution, causing him from a very early date to be much preoccupied with the effort to reconcile himself with the prospect of death, and reinforcing the far from sanguine temperament of one intellectually also a poitrinaire. The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context	consumer logistics consumer organization consumer price index consumer protection consumer research consumer society consumer terrorism consumer watchdog Consumer's goods Consumer's surplus consumerism consumerist consuming Consumingly consummate consummated consummately consummation Consummation of marriage Consummative consummatory behaviour consumption Consumption of the bowels consumption rate consumption weed consumptive Consumptively Consumptiveness cont. Contabescent contact contact action contact adhesive contact arm contact breaker contact burst preclusion contact centre contact dermatitis contact flight Contact goniometer contact high contact inhibition contact language contact lens contact lenses Contact level contact lost contact magazine contact man contact metamorphism contact mine	Consumption (economics) Consumption (economics) Consumption Based Asset Pricing Model Consumption Based Ordering Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model consumption coagulopathy Consumption Entry Consumption Fund Consumption Junction Consumption of fixed capital Consumption of Materials Consumption of the bowels Consumption Possibility Frontier consumption rate Consumption tax Consumption tax Consumption tax Consumption Taxes Consumption Taxes Consumption Taxes consumption thrombocytopenia consumption thrombocytopenia consumption thrombocytopenia consumption thrombohemorrhagic disorder Consumption Variation consumption weed Consumption, Average per Capita Consumption, Nonproductive Consumption, Personal Consumption, Productive consumptive consumptive behavior consumptive behavior consumptive behavior consumptive behavior Consumptive coagulopathy Consumptive coagulopathy consumptive use Consumptive Use Permit Consumptive weed Consumptive's Weed consumptively consumptively consumptively Consumptiveness consumptives consumptives consumptives CONSUP Consus CONSV Cont Cont CONT TAT CONT W cont. cont. rem. Conta Conta Conta corrente Conta de garantia bloqueada

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There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

However, they formed themselves into line, all assisting, owing to the importance of the search; the dairyman at the upper end with Mr Clare, who had volunteered to help; then Tess, Marian, Izz Huett, and Retty; then Bill Lewell, Jonathan, and the married dairywomen--Beck Knibbs, with her wooly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water-meads--who lived in their respective cottages.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

With all its gifts and opportunities it was a melancholy life-- melancholy with something not altogether explained by the somewhat pessimistic philosophy exposed in the Journal, nor by the consumptive tendency of Amiel's physical constitution, causing him from a very early date to be much preoccupied with the effort to reconcile himself with the prospect of death, and reinforcing the far from sanguine temperament of one intellectually also a poitrinaire.

The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context

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