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The definition of symptomatic is showing signs of something, such as a disease.

(adjective)

Increasing rates of homelessness are an example of somethingsymptomatic of poverty rates on the rise.
A person who has a fever that indicates he has the flu is an example of someone who issymptomatic.

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See symptomatic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

of or having to do with symptoms
that constitutes a symptom, as of a disease; indicative (of)
in accordance with symptoms: a symptomatic treatment

Origin: Fr symptomatique < Gr symptōmatikos, accidental

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symptomatically adverb

See symptomatic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of, relating to, or based on symptoms: symptomatic relief.
Constituting a symptom, as of a disease: the rash symptomatic of scarlet fever; a rise in unemployment symptomatic of a weakening economy.

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sympˌto·matˈi·cal·ly adverb

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