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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Consumptive

· Con·sump·tive · IPA /kənˈsʌmptɪv/
01 a. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
  1. 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. 2.
    Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.(Med.)
    “The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.” — Dryden.
02 n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
  1. 1.
    One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.