Crossword-Solution: CONSUMPTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Consumptive | a. | Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. |
| Consumptive | a. | Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. |
| Consumptive | n. | One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “CONSUMPTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | 1 answer |
| tending to consume or use often wastefully | 1 answer |
| febrile | 22 answers |
| Feverish | 42 answers |
| Hectic | 46 answers |
| Flushed | 52 answers |
| DISTRESSED ___ | 64 answers |
| Stirring | 64 answers |
| Disturbed | 69 answers |
| Frenzied | 75 answers |
| Impassioned | 77 answers |
| riotous | 79 answers |
| Active | 80 answers |
| Excited | 98 answers |
| Wild _____ | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONSUMPTIVE (5)
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive—that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much.
Visitors said they had never noticed before how strong the air was, and weak-chested and consumptive people used to throng there for years afterwards.
What I see is the Cafe Venus, on the plaza of Santiago, where one hot night I drank and talked with a dying consumptive.
And truly so am I; for he sometimes whoops like a speaking trumpet--(Tony hallooing behind the scenes)--O, there he goes--a very consumptive figure, truly.
The absence of furniture, the extreme meanness of the meal, and the haggard, bright-eyed, consumptive look of the culprit, unmanned our hero; but he clung to his stick, and was stout and warlike.
Quotes with CONSUMPTIVE (3)
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.
In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it).
Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to the five senses. Thus, reality comes to equal the scientific method. It should come as no surprise that in such a world the life of the spirit is ignored or marginalized (as well as a great many other nonmaterial things.) This view of life subsequently birthed in human beings a ravenous materialism as matters of the so…