consumptive

Plural: consumptives

Noun

• a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
• A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Adjective

• tending to consume or use often wastefully
  • "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"
  • "duties consumptive of time and energy"
  • "consumptive fires"

Adjective Satellite

• afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
  • "a consumptive patient"
  • "a consumptive cough"

Adj

• Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
• Of, or relating to consumption.
• Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.

Examples

• consumptive cough

Synonyms

lunger, tubercular

Antonyms

generative

Anagrams of consumptive