'Spasmodic' definitions:
Definition of 'spasmodic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: convulsive, spasmodic, spastic]
adjective
Occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire" [syn: fitful, spasmodic]
Definition of 'Spasmodic'
From: GCIDE
- Spasmodic \Spas"mod"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; ? a convulsion + ? likeness: cf. F. spasmotique.]
- 1. (Med.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry. [1913 Webster]
- Spasmodic croup (Med.), an affection of childhood characterized by a stoppage of brathing developed suddenly and without fever, and produced by spasmodic contraction of the vocal cords. It is sometimes fatal. Called also laryngismus stridulus, and childcrowing.
- Spasmodic stricture, a stricture caused by muscular spasm without structural change. See Organic stricture, under Organic. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spasmodic'
From: GCIDE
- Spasmodic \Spas*mod"ic\, n. (Med.) A medicine for spasm. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spasmodic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute,
- adrift,
- afflictive,
- afloat,
- agonizing,
- aimless,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- arrhythmic,
- atrocious,
- biting,
- broken,
- broken off,
- capricious,
- careening,
- casual,
- cataclysmic,
- catchy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- changing,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- convulsive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- cyclical,
- decousu,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- different,
- disarticulated,
- disastrous,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disjunct,
- disjunctive,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- distressing,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- dizzy,
- eccentric,
- eclamptic,
- episodic,
- erose,
- erratic,
- excruciating,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fidgety,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- formless,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- giddy,
- gnawing,
- gratuitous,
- grave,
- griping,
- guttering,
- halting,
- haphazard,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hit-or-miss,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- immethodical,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indiscriminate,
- infirm,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- interrupted,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- jagged,
- jerking,
- jerky,
- jiggety,
- jumpy,
- lurching,
- mazy,
- meaningless,
- mercurial,
- misshapen,
- moody,
- motley,
- mutable,
- nonconformist,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonstandard,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- occasional,
- orderless,
- orgasmic,
- painful,
- parenthetic,
- paroxysmal,
- patchy,
- periodic,
- piercing,
- planless,
- pluralistic,
- poignant,
- promiscuous,
- pulsating,
- pungent,
- racking,
- ragged,
- rambling,
- random,
- restless,
- rough,
- roving,
- saltatory,
- scatterbrained,
- scrappy,
- seismic,
- senseless,
- severe,
- shapeless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shooting,
- shuffling,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodical,
- spastic,
- spineless,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- stabbing,
- staggering,
- stinging,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- sudden,
- suspended,
- systemless,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- twitchety,
- twitching,
- twitchy,
- unaccountable,
- unarranged,
- uncertain,
- unclassified,
- unconnected,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undirected,
- undisciplined,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unfixed,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unorthodox,
- unpredictable,
- unregular,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsorted,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsustained,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- upheaving,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- vague,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- veering,
- vellicative,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- wobbling,
- wobbly