Adjective: symptomatic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more symptomatic |
| Superlative | most symptomatic |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2009, Stephen J. Ettinger, Edward C. Feldman, Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, page 9:]
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The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
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Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. [1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution:]
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And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff. [1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:]
Adjectives inflected like symptomatic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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. See: French Adjectives '
symptomatique'.