symptomatic
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- symptomatick (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (symptomatikos, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (sumptōma, “a symptom”); see symptom.
[edit] Adjective
symptomatic (comparative more symptomatic, superlative most symptomatic)
- (medicine) (of a disease) Showing symptoms.
- Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.
- The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Translations
showing symptoms
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relating to a symptom
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[edit] External links
- symptomatic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- symptomatic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
