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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp. A long consumptive war. --Addison. 2. (Med.) Affected with or inclined to consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n. One affected with consumption; as a resort for consumptives. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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 or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" n : a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: {lunger}]
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