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consumptive a. 消费的,浪费的,消耗性的
n. 肺病患者 消费的,浪费的,消耗性的肺病患者 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 [ synonym: { consumptive}, { lunger}, { tubercular}] Consumptive \ Con* sump" tive\, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. [ 1913 Webster]
Consumptive \ Con* sump" tive\, a. [ Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. [ 1913 Webster] It [ prayer] is not consumptive or our time. -- Sharp. [ 1913 Webster] A long consumptive war. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. [ 1913 Webster] The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 100 Moby Thesaurus words for " consumptive": 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
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