consumptuous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of consumptive.
Example Sentences
- "There’s Standergras, Hares ballockes, or great Orchis, / Prouoketh Venus, and procureth ſport, / It helpes the weakned body that’s amiſſe, / And fals away in a conſumptuous ſort, / It heales the Hectique feauer by report: […]"
- "By this means the root and fruit of true charity, which is the life and ſoul of Chriſtianity, the milk and marrow of all graces, this firſt growes mortally infected through the peſtilence of diviſions and diſtractions in Religion: this vitall and naturall Balſam of piety once decayed, dried up, or exhauſted by unchriſtian calentures, no wonder if the whole conſtitution of Religion grow weak, ricketly and conſumptuous."
- "“Middle class blacks didn’t look back as we should,” [Lorenzo] Lynch later recalled. “We were highly consumptuous in our life style. We had luxury cars and we didn’t reach back to the black minority who suffered. Some of that middle class mentality had gripped that congregation.”"
Etymology
From Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō, + -uous.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more consumptuous (comparative)
most consumptuous (superlative)