symptomatic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person exhibiting the symptoms of an illness.
形容词 adj.
  1. Showing symptoms.
    — It is important to observe symptomatic cats out of the carrier, on the floor in a safe, escape-proof room. Swelling, heat, and pain in one or more joints can explain many signs, including lameness, malaise, and fever.
  2. Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative. broadly
    — The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
  3. Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
  4. Relating to symptomatics.

词形变化

more symptomatic comparative most symptomatic superlative symptomatick alternative,obsolete symptomatics plural symptomatick alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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