symptomaticadjective
uk/ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/us/ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt̬.ɪk/If something bad is symptomatic of something else, it is caused by the other thing and is proof that it exists:
Jealousy within a relationship is usually symptomatic of low self-esteem in one of the partners.
specialized medical showing symptoms of a particular disease:
symptomatic AIDS patients
symptomatic influenza
A doctor who had treated an Ebola patient may have been symptomatic when he boarded the plane.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- stand
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
- typify
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