Dictionary Definition
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
symptomatic- (of a disease) Showing symptoms.
- Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.
- If something is symptomatic of something else, especially
something bad, it´s a sign of it.
- The city´s problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
Antonyms
Translations
showing symptoms
- Dutch: symptomatisch
- Finnish: oireellinen
- Turkish: semptomatik
relating to a symptom
- Dutch: symptomatisch
- Finnish: oireellinen
- Turkish: semptomatik
Extensive Definition
In medicine, a disease is symptomatic when it
is at a stage when the patient is experiencing symptoms. It is generally used
in counterdistinction of asymptomatic (when the
disease is inapparent).
Symptomatic treatment is the practice of treating
a patient's symptoms, rather than the disease or injury
itself.
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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