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Explore Consumptive through 8 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like exploitative or tubercular. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Consumptive in a sentence

Consumptive meaning

  1. Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
  2. Of or relating to consumption.
  3. Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.

Synonyms of Consumptive

exploitative diseased person sick person tubercular lunger sick ill generative exploitive exploitatory sufferer

Related words

Other words often associated with Consumptive or its synonyms:

unfortunate stricken peaked unwell indisposed afflicted poorly sickly ailing process fruitful mover

Using Consumptive

  • The main meaning on this page is: Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful. | Of or relating to consumption. | Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • Useful related words include: exploitative, diseased person, sick person, tubercular.
  • In the example corpus, consumptive often appears in combinations such as: consumptive use, consumptive and.

Context around Consumptive

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

non 2× crop 1× bandwidth 1×

Often after:

use 4× water 1× uses 1× purposes 1×

Sentence patterns with Consumptive

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

diagnosed as consumptive and given 1× drainage and consumptive use 1× less bandwidth consumptive and to 1× of their consumptive use as 1× other non consumptive uses of 1× that crop consumptive water use 1× the non consumptive use of 1× totals to consumptive use which 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a study published 1× diagnosed as consumptive 1× during the same 1× evapotranspiration plus water 1× he was looking 1× members advocating the 1×

Common sentence endings:

and consumptive use 1× drawing and painting 1× likely to be 1× michigan s economy 1× on almond production 1× sort of notions 1×

Words around Consumptive

Just before it in the word index:

consumptions 7 consumption 3.061 consummatory 2 consummation 20 consummating 7 consummately 2

Just after it in the word index:

consumul 2 consunji 3 cont 8 conta 2 contact 9.282 contactable 11

Similar in corpus frequency:

aargau 11 abacos 11 abboud 11 abbreviate 11 abdelkader 11 abdomens 11

Corpus analysis for Consumptive

  • In this selection, "consumptive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, non, crop, bandwidth, use, water and uses stand out and add context to how "consumptive" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include diagnosed as consumptive and given and drainage and consumptive use. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "consumptive" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with consumptive

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Members advocating the non-consumptive use of wildlife were outnumbered 24 to one, until the sole animal welfare protagonist resigned. (20 words)

A study published in 2011 found that crop consumptive water use and irrigation could be reduced without significant detrimental effects on almond production. (23 words)

During the same year, bird watching, photography, and other non-consumptive uses of waterfowl contributed an additional $192.8 million to Michigan’s economy. (24 words)

Longer example sentences

Other things being equal, the greater the amount of profit-income that is disbursed as personal earnings and used for consumptive purposes, the lower the savings rate and the lower the rate of accumulation is likely to be. (38 words)

The "undernetters" wanted to take ircd further in an attempt to make it less bandwidth consumptive and to try to sort out the channel chaos (netsplits and takeovers) that EFnet started to suffer from. (34 words)

Evapotranspiration plus water held in the plant totals to consumptive use, which is nearly identical to evapotranspiration.sfn The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use. (32 words)

Example sentences (8)

Evapotranspiration plus water held in the plant totals to consumptive use, which is nearly identical to evapotranspiration.sfn The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use.

He was looking at how these mediums, how these technologies, open things up behind the veneer of their consumptive use as entertainment and economy and those sort of notions.

Members advocating the non-consumptive use of wildlife were outnumbered 24 to one, until the sole animal welfare protagonist resigned.

A study published in 2011 found that crop consumptive water use and irrigation could be reduced without significant detrimental effects on almond production.

Diagnosed as consumptive and given only a short time to live, he was allowed to spend his remaining days at his leisure, drawing and painting.

During the same year, bird watching, photography, and other non-consumptive uses of waterfowl contributed an additional $192.8 million to Michigan’s economy.

Other things being equal, the greater the amount of profit-income that is disbursed as personal earnings and used for consumptive purposes, the lower the savings rate and the lower the rate of accumulation is likely to be.

The "undernetters" wanted to take ircd further in an attempt to make it less bandwidth consumptive and to try to sort out the channel chaos (netsplits and takeovers) that EFnet started to suffer from.

Common combinations with consumptive

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "consumptive" in a sentence?
An example: "Evapotranspiration plus water held in the plant totals to consumptive use, which is nearly identical to evapotranspiration.sfn The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use." This page contains 8 example sentences with the word "consumptive" from authentic English texts.
What does "consumptive" mean?
Consumptive means: Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
What are synonyms of "consumptive"?
Common synonyms of "consumptive" include: exploitative, diseased person, sick person, tubercular, lunger, sick, ill, generative. Plus 3 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "consumptive" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 8 example sentences with "consumptive", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.