Consumptive Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-sŭmptĭv
Relating to or afflicted with tuberculosis.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. destructive
  2. No longer in scientific use: phthisic
  3. phthisical
  4. immoderate
  5. tubercular
  6. tuberculate
  7. devastating
  8. tuberculous
Antonyms:
  1. generative
A person with pulmonary tuberculosis
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lunger
  2. tubercular

Words Related to Consumptive

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Consumptive Sentence Examples

  • Hampstead has numerous charitable institutions, amongst which are the North London consumptive hospital, the Orphan Working School, Haverstock Hill (1758), the general hospital and the north-western fever hospital.

  • Its sheltered situation and desirable winter climate began to attract notice about 1840; in 1855 a national sanatorium for consumptive patients was erected by subscription; a pier was opened in 1861, and in 1870 railway communication was afforded.

  • Owing to the mildness of its climate the winter town is a resort for consumptive patients.

  • His young and beautiful wife was of a consumptive family, and died childless (July 24, 1837).

  • The town owes its prosperity to its beautiful situation in a fine valley surrounded by mountains, and possesses a tepid mineral spring, considered efficacious in cases of general debility and for scorbutic and consumptive complaints.

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