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diagnostick

diagnostick is the obsolete form of diagnostic.

Meaning of diagnostic

Adjective

diagnostic (comparative more diagnostic, superlative most diagnostic)

  1. Of, or relating to diagnosis.
  2. Characteristic of a particular disease.
  3. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
    • Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the...2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 41, number 7, →DOI...
  4. Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.
    • A diagnostic assessment
  5. Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.

See all 8 meanings of diagnostic

Forms of diagnostick

Adjective
comparativemore diagnostick
superlativemost diagnostick
Noun
pluraldiagnosticks

Questions about diagnostick

What is diagnostick the obsolete form of?
Diagnostick is the obsolete form of diagnostic.

Words near diagnostick in the dictionary

  1. diagnostications
  2. diagnostician
  3. diagnosticians
  4. diagnosticities
  5. diagnosticity
  6. diagnostick
  7. diagnosticks
  8. diagnostics
  9. diagnoze
  10. diagometer
  11. diagometers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diagnostick (page history and authors); diagnostic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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