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consumptives

consumptives is the plural of consumptive.

Meaning of consumptive

Noun

consumptive (plural consumptives)

  1. A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
    • The consumptive has managed to shake the servant from her side and walks alone, striving to make it look easy.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 426

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Questions about consumptives

What is consumptives the plural of?
Consumptives is the plural of consumptive.

Words near consumptives in the dictionary

  1. consumptional
  2. consumptions
  3. consumptive
  4. consumptively
  5. consumptiveness
  6. consumptives
  7. consumptivity
  8. consumpts
  9. consumptuous
  10. Consus
  11. consute

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