Antonyms for consumption
kənˈsʌmp ʃəncon·sump·tion

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

1. consumption

   Antonyms:
   growth, development, enlargement, augmentation

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

Matched Categories

1. • Demand
   • Depletion
   • Economics
   • Tuberculosis

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.2 / 7 votes

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   phthisis, consuming

2. consumptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tuberculosis

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

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

1. consumption

   Synonyms:
   Tuberculosis
   

How to use consumption in a sentence?

1. Mayor Liccardo:

   We require motorists to carry automobile insurance, and the insurance industry appropriately encourages and rewards safe driver behavior. We tax tobacco consumption both to discourage risky behavior and to make sure non-smokers are not forced to subsidize the substantial public health costs generated by smoking-related illnesses and deaths, these successful public health models inspire a similar' harm reduction' approach for firearms.

2. Mike Zuzolo:

   It's ... a rising tide that lifts all boats scenario when it comes to increasing (Chinese) consumption, which is good for everybody in the protein sector.

3. Scott Keifer:

   What was most interesting about that is if you dig in the details the primary surprise came from consumption, you are going to see the consumer spending number continue to inch up and get better and better as we continue on in this expansion.

4. Administrator Adam Sieminski:

   India and China are expected to account for much of the growth in global oil consumption this year and in 2017.

5. John Urbanchuk:

   I was appalled when I looked at the numbers, fluid milk consumption per capita is down by 9.7 percent in the last five years, ice cream consumption is down 3.3 percent. People are just not consuming milk, and its putting the dairy industry in a bad place.

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