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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

characteristic, characterizing, connotative, constructional, constructive, contrastive, definitional, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diacritical, differencing, differential, differentiative, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, evidential, exegetic, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, hermeneutic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, individualizing, individuating, interpretational, interpretive, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, personalizing, proper, representative, semantic, semeiological, semiotic, separative, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, symptomatological, tropological, typical

Dictionary Results for diagnostic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

diagnostic
    adj 1: concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis;
           "a diagnostic reading test"
    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" [syn: diagnostic, symptomatic]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. ? able to distinguish, fr.
   ?: cf. F. diagnostique.]
   Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the
   nature of a disease.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, n.
   The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or
   distinguished from others.
   [1913 Webster]

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