Consumptive

Definition: Consumptive

Consumptive

Adjective

1. Tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires".

2. Afflicted with or or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough".

Noun

1. A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "consumptive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Consumptive

Crosswords: Consumptive

Books

• An Accounting System for Water and Consumptive Use Along the Colorado River, Hoover Dam to Mexico (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper, 2407) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tent occupied by consumptive medical officer, Fort Stanton Sanatorium. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Home "Finishers": A Consumptive Mother and Her Two Children at Work. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "consumptive": consumptive use ♦ consumptive water use ♦ non productive consumptive use ♦ optimum consumptive use ♦ ration of consumptive use of water to evaporation ♦ seasonal consumptive use ♦ valley consumptive use. Additional references.

Beginning with "consumptive": consumptive-use.

Ending with "consumptive": energy-consumptive.

Albanian

tuberkuloz (hectic, phthisis, tuberculosis, tuberculous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عرضة للسل, ‏ذو علاقة بداء السل, ‏المسلول. (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожителен (consuming, exterminatory, scorching, thunderous, truculent), туберкулозен (hectic, phthisic, tubercular, tuberculous), охтичав. (various references)

Czech

souchotinářský (phthisical). (various references)

Danish

vandforbrug ved uoensket fordampning (non productive consumptive use, non-beneficial consumptive use), vandforbrug i en dal (valley consumptive use), samlet fordampning (consumptive water use, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water losses), saesonmaessig evapotranspiration (seasonal consumptive use), optimalt vandforbrug til fordampning (optimum consumptive use), ikke-produktivt vandforbrug (non productive consumptive use, non-beneficial consumptive use), forhold mellem fordampet vandmaengde i rodzonen (consumptive-use efficiency), forhold mellem evapotranspiration og evaporation (ration of consumptive use of water to evaporation), evapotranspiration (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, water loss), den totale fordampning (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, water loss). (various references)

Dutch

teringlýder. (various references)

Esperanto

ftizulo. (various references)

Farsi 

تحلیل رفته , دچارمرض سل . (various references)

Finnish

vedenkulutuksen suhde haihduntaan (ration of consumptive use of water to evaporation), optimivedenkulutus (optimum consumptive use), kokonaishaihdunta (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, water loss), kausiluontoinen vedenkulutus (seasonal consumptive use), kasvien vedenkulutustehokkuus (consumptive-use efficiency), evapotranspiraatio (consumptive use, consumptive water use, evaporation, evapotranspiration, fly-off, total evaporation, total loss, water loss, water losses). (various references)

French

consommation non profitable d'eau (non productive consumptive use, non-beneficial consumptive use), consommation non productive d'eau (non productive consumptive use, non-beneficial consumptive use), consommation d'eau (consumptive use, consumptive water use), consommation absolue d'eau (consumptive use, consumptive water use), rendement de la consommation absolue d'eau (consumptive-use efficiency), rapport évapotranspiration-évaporation (ration of consumptive use of water to evaporation), pertes d'eau (consumptive water use), evapotranspiration (consumptive use, consumptive water use), anémie pernicieuse consomptive (consumptive pernicious anemia), évapotranspiration saisonnière (seasonal consumptive use), évapotranspiration optimum (optimum consumptive use), évapo-transpiration d'une vallée (valley consumptive use), évapotranspiration (consumptive water use). (various references)

German

schwindsüchtig (ailing, shrinking). (various references)

Greek 

φυματικόσ (tubercular, tuberculous), φθισικόσ (hectic, phthisic, phthisical). (various references)

Hebrew 

שחוף (haggard, tuberculous), שחפ� י (tuberculous), חול�" שחפת (tuberculous). (various references)

Hungarian

fogyasztó (consumer, consuming, customer). (various references)

Indonesian

penderita penyakit tbc. (various references)

Italian

consuntivo (final, final balance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胸�'病む (to become consumptive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

むね�'やむ (to become consumptive). (various references)

Pig Latin

onsumptivecay

Portuguese

tuberculoso (hectic, tubercular, tuberculous), destrutivo (destructive). (various references)

Romanian

tuberculos (hectic, phthisic, tubercular), ofticos (lank, lunger, patient, ramshackle, raw boned, scanty, wasted, weak), istovitor (backbreaking, exhausting, exhaustive, fagging, gruelling, killing, tiresome), epuizant, bolnav de tuberculozã, atacat (affected, assailed, attacked, wasted). (various references)

Russian 

туберкулезный (phthisic, phthisis, tubercular, tuberculous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tuberkulozni, potrošački. (various references)

Spanish

tísico (phthisic). (various references)

Swedish

lungsjuk. (various references)

Turkish

veremli (phthisic, phthisical, tuberculous), verem hastası, tüketim (consumption), tüketilecek, savurgan (extravagant, inefficient, lavish, prodigal, profuse, thriftless, uneconomic, uneconomical, unthrifty, wasteful), müsrif (extravagant, improvident, inefficient, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, spendthrift, squander, squanderer, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful). (various references)

Ukrainian

споживчий, руйнівний (abolitionary, caustic, destructive, deteriorative, erosive, exterminatory, holocaustal, holocaustic, ruinous, shattering, subversive, wrecking), туберкульозний (hectic, phthisic, tubercular, tuberculous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiêu thụ hao phí, người lao phổi, người ho lao, hao tốn phá hoại. (various references)

hektikos. (various references)

cachetcta. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "consumptive": consumptively, consumptives. (additional references)

Words ending with "consumptive": nonconsumptive. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Consumptive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consumpive. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: muscovite.

-3 letters: centimos, computes, counties, miscount, nepotism, pentomic, pimentos, pivotmen, unpoetic, unvoices, vicomtes, viscount.

-4 letters: centimo, centums, coempts, compute, coniums, consume, contuse, costive, costume, emptins, entopic, envious, impetus, impones, imputes, incepts, incomes, inspect, mesonic, mestino, metopic, minuets, minutes, mistune, moisten, mopiest, motives, mutines, nepotic, niveous, notices, novices, optimes, outvies, pectins, peonism, piceous, pimento.

+1 letter: consumptives.

+2 letters: consumptively.

+3 letters: nonconsumptive.

+4 letters: overconsumption.

+5 letters: overconsumptions.