SPASMODIC meaning: Occurring or done in bursts

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Spasmodic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

spasmodic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spasmodic: Merriam-Webster
spasmodic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
spasmodic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
spasmodic: Collins English Dictionary
spasmodic: Vocabulary.com
Spasmodic: Wordnik
spasmodic: Wiktionary
spasmodic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
spasmodic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
spasmodic: Infoplease Dictionary
spasmodic: Dictionary.com
spasmodic: Online Etymology Dictionary
Spasmodic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
spasmodic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
spasmodic: Rhymezone
Spasmodic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
spasmodic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
spasmodic: FreeDictionary.org
spasmodic: Mnemonic Dictionary
spasmodic: TheFreeDictionary.com
spasmodic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
spasmodic: Wordnik

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spasmodic: Legal dictionary

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spasmodic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

spasmodic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
-spasmodic, spasmodic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spasmodic)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to a spasm; resembling a sudden contraction of the muscles.
▸ adjective:  Convulsive; consisting of spasms.
▸ adjective:  Intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt bursts.
▸ adjective:  Erratic or unsustained.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to the spasmodic poets, a group of British Victorian poets who wrote introspective drama in verse.
▸ noun:  A medicine for suppressing spasms.

Opposite:

continuous, continual, unbroken, unintermittent, unremitting, uninterrupted, unceasing, steady

Types:

torticollis, trismus, dystonia, laryngospasm, bruxism, lockjaw, more...

Phrases:

Spasmodic torticollis, Spasmodic dysphonia, spasmodic croup, spasmodic asthma, spasmodic dysmenorrhea, more...

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