prodromal

1. 1.

   symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease

   Synonymsprodromic

Questions about prodromal

What does prodromal mean?

prodromal means "symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease".

How many syllables are in prodromal?

prodromal has 3 syllables: pro-dro-mal. The stress falls on "pro".

What is another word for prodromal?

Close synonyms include prodromic. 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 prodromal a common word?

prodromal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.