Synonyms for Symptom
ˈsɪmp təmsymp·tom

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.6 / 10 votes

1. symptomnoun

   Synonyms:
   sign, indication, manifestation

   Antonyms:
   cause

2. symptomnoun

   A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

   Synonyms:
   manifestation, sign, indication

   Antonyms:
   cause

3. symptomnoun

   Anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

   Synonyms:
   indication, manifestation, sign

   Antonyms:
   cause

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. symptom

   A sign (Latin signum) is any distinctive mark by which a thing may be recognized or its presence known, and may be intentional or accidental, natural or artificial, suggestive, descriptive, or wholly arbitrary; thus, a blush may be a sign of shame; the footprint of an animal is a sign that it has passed; the sign of a business house now usually declares what is done or kept within, but formerly might be an object having no connection with the business, as "the sign of the trout;" the letters of the alphabet are signs of certain sounds. While a sign may be involuntary, and even unconscious, a signal is always voluntary, and is usually concerted; a ship may show signs of distress to the casual observer, but signals of distress are a distinct appeal for aid. A symptom is a vital phenomenon resulting from a diseased condition; in medical language a sign is an indication of any physical condition, whether morbid or healthy; thus, a hot skin and rapid pulse are symptoms of pneumonia; dulness of some portion of the lungs under percussion is one of the physical signs. Compare AUGUR; CHARACTERISTIC; EMBLEM.

   Synonyms:
   emblem, indication, manifestation, mark, note, omen, presage, prognostic, sign, signal, symbol, token, type

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. symptom

   Synonyms:
   concurrent, concomitant, premonition, indication, mark, note, sign, token

   Antonyms:
   misindication

Princeton's WordNet

1. symptomnoun

   (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

2. symptomnoun

   anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

Matched Categories

1. • Evidence
   • Indication
   • Medicine

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. symptomnoun

   Synonyms:
   indication, sign, mark, note, token

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. symptomnoun

   Synonyms:
   indication, mark, sign, evidence, diagnostic

   Associated words:
   symptomatic, rymptomatology, semeiology, semeiotic, semeiography, pathognomonic, diagnosticate, diagnosis

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1. List of paraphrases for "symptom":

   symptoms, symptomatic, sign

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How to use Symptom in a sentence?

1. Jonathan McDowell:

   This is another symptom that we're in a new era — a new space age that is both much busier much tenser.

2. Mario Fernandez:

   What we have just seen is a very troubling symptom of what some people are starting to do to our country.

3. Sir Thomas More:

   And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others

4. Jill Shulman:

   Lots of parents throw money at it, that's nothing new, alums will throw a big event when the president comes to town. They'll meet with their contacts at the school, they become donors. None of that is new. But the level of this scandal is a symptom of helicopter parenting on steroids.

5. Nancy Messonnier:

   We at CDC don't have clear evidence that patients are infectious before symptom onset.