Synonyms for consumptive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuh n-suhmp-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsʌmp tɪv

Définition of consumptive

Origin : early 15c., "wasteful," also with reference to pulmonary consumption, from Latin consumpt-, stem of consumere (see consume) + -ive. As a noun, attested from late 14c.

adj destructive

Example sentences :

Farther on, too, there was a girl so thin and pale that she must surely be a consumptive.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

You assure me at all events that this young person is not consumptive?
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

A deaf person had heard, a mute had spoken, a consumptive had revived!
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

His mother was consumptive, and they're afraid he takes after her.
Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor

Those who can relish sour buttermilk, will find it still more light, and it is reckoned very beneficial in consumptive cases.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

That beautiful young man looks like a consumptive in his last stage.
Extract from : « The Buddha » by Paul Carus

Why should a consumptive hold a cloth before his face when coughing?
Extract from : « A Handbook of Health » by Woods Hutchinson

I think we care too highly for the cancerous and the consumptive.
Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland

But the Tom Jones is there in all of us who are not anæmic or consumptive.
Extract from : « They and I » by Jerome K. Jerome

Another lad, a consumptive was sentenced the same day for two years.
Extract from : « The Hindered Hand » by Sutton E. Griggs

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