Definition of "consumptive" [con•sump•tive]

• Consuming or tending to consume. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or afflicted with consumption. (adjective)
• A person afflicted with consumption. (noun)

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• "One of the finest weblogs has been morphing into a new shape: "consumptive is back. a lot simpler, a lot more blank.""
• "It seems ironic that while America's founding fathers considered the following truth to be self-evident -- that all men are created equal -- American consumers are engaging in consumptive behaviour that suggests their abnormally high incomes are some kind of permanent right of citizenship."
• ""IFAW is sceptical in general about the amount of benefits that every actually reach communities from so-called consumptive use of wild life, but in this instance a zero quota would mean zero sales and zero benefits," said Dr Maas."