D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Symptomatic

/sĭmˌ-ptəm-ăt'-ĭk/ · Symp·tom·at·ic · IPA /ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/
01 a. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
    Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.” Macaulay.
  2. 2.
    According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.