[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

consumptive \consump"tive\, n.
   one affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

consumptive \consump"tive\, a. cf. f. consomptif.
   1. of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of
      consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
      1913 webster

            it prayer is not consumptive or our time. --sharp.
      1913 webster

            a long consumptive war.               --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. med. affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
      1913 webster

            the lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
     2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a
        consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
     n : a person with pulmonary tuberculosis syn: lunger
see also:
generative lunger 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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