symptomatic

symptomatic
    adj 1: characteristic or indicative of a disease; "a diagnostic
           sign of yellow fever"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet
           fever"; "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime
           symptomatic of social breakdown" [syn: {diagnostic},
           {symptomatic}]
    2: relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or
       symptoms; "symptomatic relief"; "symptomatic treatment"; "a
       symptomatic classification of diseases"
    

Symptomatic \Symp`tom*at"ic\, Symptomatical \Symp`tom*at"ic*al\,
   a. [Cf. F. symptomatique, Gr. ? causal.]
   1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence
      with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence
      of something else.
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            Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an
            unamiable temper.                     --Macaulay.
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   2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification
      of diseases.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Symp`tom*at"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "symptomatic":
      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