Refine this word faster
Symptomatic
Definitions
- 1 Showing symptoms.
"It is important to observe symptomatic cats out of the carrier, on the floor in a safe, escape-proof room. Swelling, heat, and pain in one or more joints can explain many signs, including lameness, malaise, and fever."
- 2 Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative. broadly
"The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country."
- 3 Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
- 4 Relating to symptomatics.
- 1 characteristic or indicative of a disease wordnet
- 2 relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms wordnet
- 1 A person exhibiting the symptoms of an illness.
Etymology
Borrowed from French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (sumptōmatikós, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a symptom”). By surface analysis, symptom + -atic.
Borrowed from French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (sumptōmatikós, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a symptom”). By surface analysis, symptom + -atic.
See also for "symptomatic"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: symptomatic