Symptomatic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Symptomatic \Symp`tom*at"ic\, Symptomatical \Symp`tom*at"ic*al\,
     a. [Cf. F. symptomatique, Gr. ? causal.]
     1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence
        with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence
        of something else.
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              Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an
              unamiable temper.                     --Macaulay.
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     2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification
        of diseases.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Symp`tom*at"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  symptomatic
       adj 1: characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a
              diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic
              information"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever";
              "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime
              symptomatic of social breakdown" [syn: {diagnostic}, {symptomatic
              of(p)}]
       2: relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or
          symptoms; "symptomatic relief"; "symptomatic treatment";
          "a symptomatic classification of diseases"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "symptomatic":
     absolute, adducible, admissible, attestative, attestive, authentic,
     based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, connotative,
     convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, demonstrative,
     denominative, denotative, designative, determinative, diagnostic,
     documentary, documented, emblematic, evidential, evidentiary,
     ex parte, exhibitive, expressive, eye-witness, factual, figural,
     figurative, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay,
     identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, implicit,
     incontrovertible, indicating, indicative, indicatory, indisputable,
     individual, irrefutable, irresistible, material, meaningful,
     metaphorical, naming, nuncupative, overwhelming, pathognomonic,
     peculiar, presumptive, probative, reliable, representative,
     semantic, semiotic, signalizing, significant, significative,
     signifying, suggesting, suggestive, suggestive of, sure, symbolic,
     symbolistic, symbological, symptomatologic, telling, typical,
     valid, weighty