symptomatic

Showing signs of an illness, such as pain, coughing, or fever.

• The patient is now symptomatic.
• Symptomatic children should stay home.
• Some people became symptomatic several days after infection.

Opposites: asymptomatic

Common phrases: symptomatic patient, symptomatic infection, become symptomatic

Showing that a particular problem or condition exists.

• These delays are symptomatic of poor planning.
• His silence was symptomatic of a deeper problem.
• Falling sales may be symptomatic of changing tastes.

How to use it: symptomatic of something (The repeated mistakes are symptomatic of poor training.)

Similar words: indicative, characteristic

Common phrases: symptomatic of something, symptomatic behavior, symptomatic failure

Relieving signs of an illness without treating what causes it.

• The medicine provides symptomatic relief.
• Doctors offered symptomatic treatment for the cough.
• Symptomatic care helped her feel better during recovery.

Common phrases: symptomatic treatment, symptomatic relief, symptomatic therapy

Related to the medical study of signs that show someone has a disease.

• The report includes a symptomatic analysis.
• They discussed symptomatic classification in the lecture.
• The researcher proposed a new symptomatic approach to diagnosis.

Common phrases: symptomatic analysis, symptomatic classification, symptomatic study

A person who shows signs of an illness.

• Each symptomatic was tested.
• The study included ten symptomatics with mild illness.
• Nurses recorded the temperature of every symptomatic.

Common phrases: a symptomatic, each symptomatic