spasmodic

Speech parts

1. spasmodic - Noun

2. spasmodic - Adjective

3. spasmodic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.

Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.

A medicine for spasm.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spastic convulsive fitful paroxysmal spotty inconstant changing broken variable varying isolated random occasional uncertain unstable
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Antonyms

diurnal even constant daily continuous frequent
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Phrases with the word

spasmodic croup

Examples

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope

Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first. Scott Adams

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope

convulsive motions Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

spasmatical spasmic spasming spasmodic croup spasmodic laryngitis spasmodical