diagnostic

1. 1.

   concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis

   “a diagnostic reading test”
2. 2.

   characteristic or indicative of a disease

   “a diagnostic sign of yellow fever”

   “a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever”

   “symptomatic of insanity”

   “a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown”

   Synonymssymptomatic

   Similarcharacteristic

Questions about diagnostic

What does diagnostic mean?

diagnostic means "concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diagnostic?

diagnostic has 4 syllables: di-ag-no-stic. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˌdaɪəɡˈnɑstɪk/.

What is another word for diagnostic?

Close synonyms include symptomatic. 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 diagnostic a common word?

diagnostic 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.

What rhymes with diagnostic?

1 word rhymes with diagnostic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.