Communication

Synonyms for diagnostic

The synonym for diagnostic recorded in this bank is symptomatic, in the sense "characteristic or indicative of a disease". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for diagnostic

symptomaticadjective, in the sense "characteristic or indicative of a disease"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for diagnostic.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampCommunication

characteristic or indicative of a disease

A diagnostic sign of yellow fever.

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The true synonym

symptomatic

Same sentence, swapped: A symptomatic sign of yellow fever.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

constructive
differential
discriminating

Where diagnostic turns up in the game

diagnostic is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play diagnostic

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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