Word Study
spasm |
spasmatical |
spasmodic |
spasmodic laryngitis |
spasmodical |
spasmodically
| spasmolysis
| spasmolytic
| spassky
| spastic
| spastic abasia
spasmodically
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial spasmodically has 2 senses
- spasmodically(r = adv.all) jerkily - with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"
- spasmodically(r = adv.all) Array - in spurts and fits; "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"
THESAURUS
spasmodically
at haphazard, at intervals, at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, chaotically, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, every which way, fitfully, flutteringly, haltingly, haphazardly, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hit or miss, impulsively, in snatches, in spots, inconsistently, inconstantly, indiscriminately, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on, patchily, promiscuously, quakingly, quaveringly, quiveringly, randomly, roughly, saltatorily, shakily, shudderingly, sloppily, sporadically, spottily, tremblingly, tremulously, uncertainly, unequally, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, ununiformly, variably, waveringly, whimsically, wobblingly
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