Consumptive
adjective
Related to the disease tuberculosis.
He was a consumptive patient who spent months in a sanatorium.
Often appears as...
- consumptive disease
- consumptive patient
adjective
Using things up, reducing resources.
Coal is a consumptive energy source, it cannot be replenished once used.
Often appears as...
- consumptive process
- consumptive use
adjective
Related to the disease tuberculosis.
He was a consumptive patient who spent months in a sanatorium.
Often appears as...
- consumptive disease
- consumptive patient
adjective
Using things up, reducing resources.
Coal is a consumptive energy source, it cannot be replenished once used.
Often appears as...
- consumptive process
- consumptive use
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Illness
Understand that 'consumptive' often appears in historical texts referring to tuberculosis.
19th-century novels describe characters as consumptive, revealing tuberculosis was then common.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Used more in past medical discussions, now 'tuberculosis' is more common in modern usage.
Victorian doctors discussed the treatment of consumptive symptoms frequently.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Tone
Carries a grave connotation, referencing a serious and deadly historical disease.
Novels rarely portrayed consumptive characters humorously due to the disease's severity.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Illness
Understand that 'consumptive' often appears in historical texts referring to tuberculosis.
19th-century novels describe characters as consumptive, revealing tuberculosis was then common.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Used more in past medical discussions, now 'tuberculosis' is more common in modern usage.
Victorian doctors discussed the treatment of consumptive symptoms frequently.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Tone
Carries a grave connotation, referencing a serious and deadly historical disease.
Novels rarely portrayed consumptive characters humorously due to the disease's severity.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Illness
Understand that 'consumptive' often appears in historical texts referring to tuberculosis.
19th-century novels describe characters as consumptive, revealing tuberculosis was then common.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Context
Used more in past medical discussions, now 'tuberculosis' is more common in modern usage.
Victorian doctors discussed the treatment of consumptive symptoms frequently.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Tone
Carries a grave connotation, referencing a serious and deadly historical disease.
Novels rarely portrayed consumptive characters humorously due to the disease's severity.
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How Amazon, Apple,...
but to love others, mostly through pictures that create empathy, catalyze and reinforce our relationships. Let's continue our journey down the torso. Amazon is our consumptive gut. The instinct of more is hardwired into us.
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What makes tuberculosis...
The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis. Today, tuberculosis, or TB, is still one of the world’s biggest infectious killers,
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How Amazon, Apple,...
but to love others, mostly through pictures that create empathy, catalyze and reinforce our relationships. Let's continue our journey down the torso. Amazon is our consumptive gut. The instinct of more is hardwired into us.
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What makes tuberculosis...
The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis. Today, tuberculosis, or TB, is still one of the world’s biggest infectious killers,
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David Suzuki
Canadian Scientist
There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.
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Walton Goggins
American Actor
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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George Etherege
English Dramatist
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
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David Suzuki
Canadian Scientist
There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.
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Walton Goggins
American Actor
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
Quote examples
George Etherege
English Dramatist
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
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