symptomatic

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.2.1 Antonyms 1.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 External links

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[edit] Etymology

< French symptomatique < New Latin symptomaticus < Greek συμπτωματικός (symptomatikos), “‘of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual’”) < σύμπτωμα (sumptōma), “‘a symptom’”); see symptom.

[edit] Adjective

symptomatic (comparative more symptomatic, superlative most symptomatic)

1. (medicine) (of a disease) Showing symptoms.
2. 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

• asymptomatic

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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