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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, astringent, baneful, bilious, calamitous, cancerous, case, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chlorotic, colicky, collapsible, compactable, compressible, constringent, consuming, contractible, contractile, contractional, contractive, deadly, deflationary, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, fatal, fateful, foldable, fratricidal, incurable, inpatient, internecine, invalid, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, nihilist, nihilistic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, ravaging, rheumatic, rickety, ruining, ruinous, scorbutic, scrofulous, self-destructive, shut-in, sick person, spastic, styptic, subversionary, subversive, sufferer, suicidal, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering
Dictionary Results for consumptive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
consumptive
    adj 1: tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water
           suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties
           consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
           [ant: generative, productive]
    2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a
       consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
    n 1: a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive,
         lunger, tubercular]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n.
   One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, a. [Cf. F. consomptif.]
   1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of
      consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
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            It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. --Sharp.
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            A long consumptive war.               --Addison.
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   2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
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            The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
                                                  --Dryden.
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