Usually means: Using resources without replenishing them.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word consumptive:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. consumptive: Merriam-Webster
  2. consumptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consumptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. consumptive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. consumptive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Consumptive, consumptive: Wordnik
  7. consumptive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. consumptive: Wiktionary
  9. consumptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. consumptive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. consumptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. consumptive: Dictionary.com
  13. Consumptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. consumptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. consumptive: Rhymezone
  16. Consumptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. consumptive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. consumptive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. consumptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. consumptive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. consumptive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. consumptive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. consumptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. consumptive: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
▸ adjective:  Of, or relating to consumption.
▸ adjective:  (pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
▸ noun:  A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Similar:
exploitive, exploitative, exploitatory, ill, sick, lunger, dissipated, wasteful, spent, profligatory, more...

Opposite:
productive, frugal, conservative, efficient

Types:
tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, more...

Phrases:
consumptive use, consumptive coagulopathy, consumptive behavior, Consumptive water use, more...

Adjectives:
poor, young, careless, little, average, careful, hopeless, advanced, indigent, tall, old

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    sallow,     dusky,     sepia,     beige,     ivory, more...

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Similar:
exploitive, exploitative, exploitatory, ill, sick, lunger, dissipated, wasteful, spent, profligatory, more...

Opposite:
productive, frugal, conservative, efficient

Types:
tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, more...

Phrases:
consumptive use, consumptive coagulopathy, consumptive behavior, Consumptive water use, more...

Adjectives:
poor, young, careless, little, average, careful, hopeless, advanced, indigent, tall, old

Colors:
    sallow,     dusky,     sepia,     beige,     ivory, more...



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