symptomatic

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or based on symptoms: symptomatic relief.
  2. adjective 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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  • This decade-long hypocrisy is symptomatic, and is inherit in the relationship between many Arab states and Palestinians: the 'guardians' of the Holy Land, those who resist, suffer and often die alone. —  Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news
  • What's the relationship between symptomatic, asymptomatic and symptom? hat would you like to ask? en Español —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • This decade-long hypocrisy is symptomatic, and is inherit in the relationship between many Arab states and Palestinians: the ´guardians´ of the Holy Land, those who resist, suffer and often die alone. —  Los Angeles Chronicle
  • Folman's unresolved guilt is at once personal and socially symptomatic - and either way, an internal Israeli issue. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • Gates later told reporters the FCS vehicles 'lack of a V-shaped hull to deflect roadside bombs was "symptomatic" of other recent combat lessons the Army failed to apply to the vehicle design. —  GovExec.com Top News
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  1. from French symptomatique = Spanish sintomático = Portuguese symptomatico = Italian sintomatico, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Greek συμπτωματικός, of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual, from σύμπτωμα(τ-), a symptom: see symptom.
 

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