diagnose

1. 1.

   determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis

   Synonymsname

   Broaderanalyze

   Narrowerexplore
2. 2.

   subject to a medical analysis

   Broaderanalyze

   Narrowerexplore

   medicine

Other forms of diagnose

past tense

diagnosed·

present participle

diagnosing·

third person

diagnoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diagnose

What does diagnose mean?

diagnose means "determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diagnose?

diagnose has 3 syllables: di-ag-nose. The stress falls on "nose". In IPA it is /ˌdaɪəɡˈnoʊs/.

What is another word for diagnose?

Close synonyms include name. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diagnose a common word?

diagnose is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.