1. Tending to consume or use often wastefully
   "consumptive fires"; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"
    
2. Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis
   "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"

1. A person with pulmonary tuberculosis
   "The consumptive was quarantined to prevent the spread of the disease";
   - lunger, tubercular

Derived forms: consumptives

See also: exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive, extractive, ill, sick

Type of: diseased person, sick person, sufferer

Antonym: generative