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Symptomatic   /sˌɪmptəmˈætɪk/   Listen
Symptomatic

adjective
1.
Characteristic or indicative of a disease.  Synonym: diagnostic.  "A rash symptomatic of scarlet fever" , "Symptomatic of insanity" , "A rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown"
2.
Relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms.  "Symptomatic treatment" , "A symptomatic classification of diseases"






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"Symptomatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... from time to time frequented: where earnest-eyed women in graceful garments—which certainly afforded a rest to the eye—dispensed tea from a samovar, and discoursed discreetly of the current Academy and the most recent symptomatic novel. ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... ourselves, that the Mormons are unwilling to administer a republican form of government, if not incapable of doing so. The author of the letter recently addressed by "A Man of the Latin Race" to the Emperor Napoleon, on the subject of French influence in America, comments especially upon this fact as symptomatic of the disintegration of this republic; and allusion is made to it in every other foreign review of our political condition. It is obviously inconsistent with our national dignity that a remedy should not be immediately applied; but when we seek for such, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 19, May, 1859 • Various

... that such facts are symptomatic of a very remarkable condition of the public mind, more especially among a people who are admitted to be, more than any other nation, engrossed by money-getting and by the more material pursuits of life. The less pretension to eloquence and the attractive graces of oratory the lecturer can offer, ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew



Words linked to "Symptomatic" :   symptom, characteristic, diagnostic



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