Dictionary entry

Symptomatic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Symp′tom‐at″ic (?), 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.

Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay.

2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.

— Symp′tom‐at″ic‐al‐ly, adv.