symptomatic

Meaning

Adj

1. Showing symptoms.
2. (broadly) Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative.
3. Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
4. Relating to symptomatics.

Noun

A person exhibiting the symptoms of an illness.

Opposite of

asymptomatic, nonsymptomatic, asymptomatic#Noun

Synonyms

diagnostic

coincidental

emblematic

haphazard

incidental

indicative

suggestive

symbolic

endeictic

semeiotic

of symptoms

characteristic

symptotic

Translations

sintomático

symptomatique

symptomatisch

sintomatico

symptomatisch

simptomàtic

semptomatik

sintomático

symptomatische

pertencente aos sintomas

perteneciente a los síntomas

alamet olan

araz olan

che indica determinati sintomi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/

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.