consumptive

[EE. UU.]/kən'sʌm(p)tɪv/
[Reino Unido]/kən'sʌmptɪv/
Frecuencia: Muy alto

Traducción

adj. relacionado con el consumo, caracterizado por el consumo excesivo
n. una persona que sufre de una enfermedad pulmonar
Word Forms

Frases y colocaciones

consumptive behavior

comportamiento consumista

consumptive lifestyle

estilo de vida consumista

Oraciones de ejemplo

tourism represents an insidious form of consumptive activity.

el turismo representa una forma insidiosa de actividad consumista.

RESULTS &CONCLUSION: Levodopa/benserazide occupied the first place in the list of consumptive sum of money of antiparkinsonian during the period 2000~2003.

RESULTADOS Y CONCLUSIÓN: La levodopa/benserazida ocupó el primer lugar en la lista de gasto de dinero para antiparkinsonianos durante el período 2000~2003.

Ejemplos del mundo real

He won't limply surrender like some consumptive Romantic.

Fuente: The Power of Art - Joseph Mallord William Turner

The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis.

Fuente: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

A French actress was showing in a novel way how consumptive women die.

Fuente: Resurrection

Even the consumptive came near them, and, coughing, looked on.

Fuente: Resurrection

Henry Brandling, a sorrowful, rich Englishman, travels to Germany to commission a “mechanical marvel” so wondrous it will raise his consumptive son from his sickbed.

Fuente: The Economist - Arts

The consumptive with the child in her arms and the watch-woman, who did not cease knitting a stocking with her nimble fingers, approached Maslova.

Fuente: Resurrection

At the expiration of the first month, Denise had become quite one of the family, like the other saleswoman, a silent, consumptive, little body.

Fuente: Women's Paradise (Middle)

" All right, " she said, and, taking the little hand of the boy into her own white hand, she returned to the consumptive's mother.

Fuente: Resurrection

" She is consumptive, and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the thing to cure her. She has taken to her bed; she is dying" .

Fuente: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Two very sad betting men were playing billiards, attended by a moist, consumptive marker; and for the moment Silas imagined that these were the only occupants of the apartment.

Fuente: New Arabian Nights (Volume 1)

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