consumptive

[US]/kən'sʌm(p)tɪv/
[UK]/kən'sʌmptɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. relating to consumption, characterized by excessive consumption
n. a person suffering from a pulmonary disease

Phrases & Collocations

consumptive behavior

consumptive lifestyle

Example Sentences

tourism represents an insidious form of consumptive activity.

RESULTS &CONCLUSION: Levodopa/benserazide occupied the first place in the list of consumptive sum of money of antiparkinsonian during the period 2000~2003.

Real-world Examples

He won't limply surrender like some consumptive Romantic.

Source: The Power of Art - Joseph Mallord William Turner

The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

A French actress was showing in a novel way how consumptive women die.

Source: Resurrection

Even the consumptive came near them, and, coughing, looked on.

Source: Resurrection

Henry Brandling, a sorrowful, rich Englishman, travels to Germany to commission a “mechanical marvel” so wondrous it will raise his consumptive son from his sickbed.

Source: The Economist - Arts

The consumptive with the child in her arms and the watch-woman, who did not cease knitting a stocking with her nimble fingers, approached Maslova.

Source: Resurrection

At the expiration of the first month, Denise had become quite one of the family, like the other saleswoman, a silent, consumptive, little body.

Source: Women's Paradise (Middle)

" All right, " she said, and, taking the little hand of the boy into her own white hand, she returned to the consumptive's mother.

Source: Resurrection

" She is consumptive, and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the thing to cure her. She has taken to her bed; she is dying" .

Source: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Two very sad betting men were playing billiards, attended by a moist, consumptive marker; and for the moment Silas imagined that these were the only occupants of the apartment.

Source: New Arabian Nights (Volume 1)

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