consumptive
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8.1
- adjective
- /kənˈsʌmp.tɪv/
:
destructivo
- Ideally, the core zone is designated as a strict protection area where consumptive use of resources is prohibited.
- consumptive use
- consumptive uses
- consumptive uses of water
Is it the physical, analog, materialistic, consumptive goods, or is it virtual?
- Is it the physical, analog, materialistic, consumptive goods, or is it virtual?
- And so maybe some value is the consumptive value of merely looking at this NFT and enjoying it.
Examples
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So changing consumptive habits will barely make any difference in production, if any.
Blog text (34) -
While his classmates were doing keg stands on the weekends, he railed against consumptive American culture.
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Consumptive patterns reflect the social order, but they also create it.
Academic text (1990) -
So farming, as we know large animal farming is hugely consumptive of water and land and resources and the like.
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None of the countries engaged in major development projects, which would have resulted in excessive consumptive utilization of the rivers.
Academic text (2008) -
The fact is, stopping the pipeline doesn't address our consumptive ways in any fashion whatsoever.
Blog text (30) -
However calculated, consumptive uses provide profound economic benefits that are critical components of the argument to conserve some animal species.
Academic text (2006) -
In fact, in the seventeen contiguous western states, irrigation accounts for approximately 90 percent of consumptive water use.
Academic text (2008) -
Yet our growing population and increasing reliance on resource-consumptive technologies have created the potential for unprecedented anthropogenic disruption of the biosphere.
Academic text (1994) -
Our consumptive habits are harming the environment and depleting resources.
Synonyms
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3.0
Using more money or things than you need
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7.1
Spending much more money than is needed
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9.6
Spends money or uses resources wastefully and shows little care about right and wrong
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8.4
Spending money in a careless, wasteful way
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8.2
A person who likes to buy expensive things
Spending money or time wastefully to enjoy life
Spending money or using things in a wasteful way
Not careful with money, spending more than needed
Antonyms
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4.5
Can continue for a long time without using up resources or harming the environment
How Wasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Consumptive comes from the same root consumere 'to use up' as the common words consume and consumption, so it can mean 'using up' resources. That is why something described as consumptive uses a lot of material or energy, often wastefully.