symptomatic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Being a sign of a wider, usually bad, situation or problem.

   The long delays are symptomatic of deeper problems in the company.

2. 2
   adj

   Showing the signs of a particular illness.

   Only symptomatic patients were tested for the virus.

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.

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