consumptive

  • (a) tending to consume or use often wastefully
    • water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses
    • duties consumptive of time and energy
    • consumptive fires
  • (s) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
    • a consumptive patient
    • a consumptive cough

Nouns

Synonyms

tubercular lunger

Antonyms

generative productive

Words of close approximity

consumption