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Suggestive vs Symptomatic - What's the difference?

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Suggestive is a related term of symptomatic.


As adjectives the difference between suggestive and symptomatic

is that suggestive is tending to suggest or imply while symptomatic is (medicine) (of a disease ) showing symptoms.

suggestive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to suggest or imply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • Suggesting romance, sex, etc.

    • symptomatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * symptomatick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) (of a disease ) Showing symptoms.
  • Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.
    • The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
  • * Macaulay
    • Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.

    Antonyms

    * asymptomatic

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