Consumption Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms for consumptionkənˈsʌmp ʃəncon·sump·tion

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 6 votes

1. consumption

   Synonyms:decline, decay, expenditure, waste, decrement, lessening, decrease

   Antonyms:growth, development, enlargement, augmentation

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1. Consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:Decline, waste, decay. See Decline.

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1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakenoun

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

   Synonyms:phthisis, use, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, inhalation, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, breathing in, aspiration, economic consumption, ingestion, inlet, intake, usance, inspiration, white plague

2. pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plaguenoun

   involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

   Synonyms:phthisis, use, uptake, usance, white plague, expenditure, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, drug addiction, using up, intake, ingestion, economic consumption, use of goods and services

3. consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and servicesnoun

   (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

   "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

   Synonyms:phthisis, usage, use, custom, habit, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, ingestion, exercise, role, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, utilization, employment, economic consumption, manipulation, intake, usance, enjoyment, function, purpose, white plague, utilisation

4. consumption, using up, expenditurenoun

   the act of consuming something

   Synonyms:spending, phthisis, use, expenditure, outgo, uptake, ingestion, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, economic consumption, expending, intake, outlay, usance, white plague, use of goods and services

Matched Categories

1. • Demand
   • Depletion
   • Economics
   • Tuberculosis

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:extinction, destruction, waste, expenditure

2. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, decline, tabes, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation

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1. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:phthisis, consuming

2. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:tuberculosis

   Associated words:tubercular, tubercle, tuberculin, hectic, consumptive, pectoral

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1. List of paraphrases for "consumption":

   consumer, consuming, exertion, use, consumo, consommation, intake, drinking, eating, usage, consumerism, spending, consume, depreciation, abuse, pull, consumed, uptake

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. consumption

   Synonyms:Tuberculosis

How to pronounce consumption?

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Words popularity by usage frequency

ranking	word
#61	use
#853	function
#1024	employment
#1093	role
#1185	consumer
#1212	custom
#1258	purpose
#1980	waste
#2042	exercise
#2225	abuse
#3031	usage
#3492	eating
#3745	spending
#3810	pull
#3885	consumption
#3958	drinking
#4933	decrease
#5615	decline
#6117	expenditure
#7011	inspiration
#7209	intake
#8609	utilization
#10038	consuming
#10134	decay
#10222	habit
#10401	manipulation
#11901	consumed
#11906	depreciation
#11912	enjoyment
#12744	inlet
#13640	consume
#15581	uptake
#18279	inhalation
#19833	utilisation
#23787	ingestion
#24319	aspiration
#27445	outlay
#38020	exertion
#38729	consumerism
#51614	decrement
#53539	lessening
#76403	consumo
#80360	expending
#113290	consommation
#186869	outgo
#310552	phthisis

How to use consumption in a sentence?

1. Carolina Barbosa:

   Our study shows that people did n’t just increase their alcohol consumption for a month or two at the beginning of the pandemic – the trend held for nearly the entire year, increases in alcohol consumption have been associated with natural disasters and other large-scale events that induce stress and anxiety, and a pandemic certainly fits that description.

2. Gu Yongtao:

   Economic weakness has been largely priced in, this year, export and consumption could remain weak. Investment, another drive of growth, really depends on government's spending on infrastructure.

3. Matthew Henman:

   High profile, mass casualty attacks are a tried and tested method of changing the narrative and deflecting attention away from the problems it is facing, this is done for internal consumption just as much as external.

4. Gayle Berry:

   Initially people were saying the fall in oil could be a positive because it could be a boost for global growth. Whereas now... people are saying that the continued fall in oil is reflective of weak consumption in the first place and if so, that is negative for commodities.

5. Saket Tiku:

   We have surplus oxygen at plants which are far off from places where it is needed right now. Trucking oxygen is a challenge from these plants, we have ramped up the production as oxygen consumption is rising through the roof. But we have limitations and the biggest challenge right now is transporting it to where its urgently needed.

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Translations for consumption

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• استهلاكArabic
• консумация, изразходване, консумиранеBulgarian
• consumCatalan, Valencian
• spotřeba, zničeníCzech
• Verbrauch, Verbrauchswert, Verzehr, KonsumGerman
• φθίση, κατανάλωσηGreek
• consumoSpanish
• مصرفPersian
• kulutus, kuluttaminen, riutuminenFinnish
• consommation, consumer, consommerFrench
• caitheamhScottish Gaelic
• צריכהHebrew
• fogyasztásHungarian
• consumoInterlingua
• konsumsiIndonesian
• deperimento, consunzione, consumoItalian
• הצריכהHebrew
• 消費Japanese
• បម្រើបម្រាស់Khmer
• 소비, 消費Korean
• wegteren, consumptie, verbruikDutch
• consumoPortuguese
• потребление, истощение, расходRussian
• konsumtionSwedish
• వినియోగంTelugu

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