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symptomatic /sɪm(p)təˈmatɪk /adjective1Serving as a symptom or sign, especially of something undesirable: these difficulties are symptomatic of fundamental problems...- Both represent desirable objects, symptomatic of consumerism and excess.
- Images that traditionally evoke nostalgia become symptomatic of inevitable decay.
- Their conduct was symptomatic of the unprincipled character of the entire project.
Synonyms indicative, signalling, warning, characteristic, suggestive, typical, representative, symbolic rare indicatory 2Exhibiting or involving medical symptoms: patients with symptomatic coeliac disease symptomatic patients...- The registry included patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic pulmonary embolism.
- This remains the most common presentation of tubal pregnancy in symptomatic patients.
- Past medical history revealed symptomatic osteoarthritis of her large extremity joints.
Derivatives symptomatically adverb ...- It has veered from offering slightly more moderate versions of Howard's policies to new departures, such as a more independent foreign policy - fine as generalities but symptomatically short on detail.
- Duncan summons the entry's orthodox interpretation established more than a century ago by historian Elliott Coues, who read it as ‘a sadly interesting passage’ and linked it symptomatically with Lewis's suicide four years later.
- All too often, patients, particularly the elderly, continue to be treated symptomatically for alcohol-related conditions without recognition of the underlying problem.
Rhymes achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic |