English to English
adjective
- tending to consume or use often wastefully
Water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses.
Duties consumptive of time and energy.
Consumptive fires.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
source: WordNet 3.0
- One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
A consumptive patient.
A consumptive cough.
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
adj
- [consémtiv] Nauubos; nawáwalâ; nátutuyô; iniitika; natitisis
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
