Search Result for "diagnostic":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis;
- Example: "a diagnostic reading test"
2. characteristic or indicative of a disease;
- Example: "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"
- Example: "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever"
- Example: "symptomatic of insanity"
- Example: "a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown"
[syn: diagnostic, symptomatic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. ? able to distinguish, fr. ?: cf. F. diagnostique.] Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, n. The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "diagnostic": characteristic, characterizing, connotative, constructional, constructive, contrastive, definitional, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diacritical, differencing, differential, differentiative, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, evidential, exegetic, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, hermeneutic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, individualizing, individuating, interpretational, interpretive, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, personalizing, proper, representative, semantic, semeiological, semiotic, separative, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, symptomatological, tropological, typical
