[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

symptomatic \symp`tomat"ic\, symptomatical \symp`tomat"ical\,
   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.
      1913 webster

            symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an
            unamiable temper.                     --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. according to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification
      of diseases.
      1913 webster -- symp`tomat"ically, adv.
      1913 webster
see also:
symp`tomat"ically 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

symptomatic
     adj 1: characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a
            diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic
            information"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever";
            "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime
            symptomatic of social breakdown" syn: diagnostic, symptomatic
            ofp
     2: relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or
        symptoms; "symptomatic relief"; "symptomatic treatment";
        "a symptomatic classification of diseases"
see also:
diagnostic symptomatic ofp 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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