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spasmodicadjective lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrencespasmodic problems that we will have to deal with as they crop up aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic(also episodical), erratic, fitful, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spastic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady convulsive, sudden, violentbroken, disconnected, fragmentary, interruptedaimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, straycapricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, waveringchangeable, fickle, variable, volatile constant, continuous, habitual, periodic, regular, repeated, steady changeless, equable, even, stable, stationary, uniformunchanging, unvarying, unwaveringmethodical(also methodic), orderly, systematicunrelenting, unremitting easily excited by naturea talk show host who was famed for his edgy, spasmodic manner excitable, fiddle-footed, flighty, fluttery, high-strung, hyper, hyperactive, hyperexcitable, hyperkinetic, jittery, jumpy, nervous, skittery, skittish, spooky hot-blooded, mercurial, temperamental, unstable, volatile, volcanicanxious, edgy, flibbertigibbety, nervy, tense, uptightemotional, emotionalistic, hypersensitive, intense, sensitive, soulfuldramatic, histrionic, melodramaticirascible, irritable, perturbable, prickly, testy, touchy imperturbable, nerveless, unexcitable, unflappable, unshakable calm, collected, cool, serene, tranquileasy, easygoing, laid-back, relaxed fitful, spasmodic, convulsive mean lacking steadiness or regularity in movement.fitful implies intermittence, a succession of starts and stops or risings and fallings.fitful sleep spasmodic adds to fitful the implication of rapid or violent activity alternating with inactivity.spasmodic growth convulsive suggests the breaking of regularity or quiet by uncontrolled movement.convulsive shocks ca. 1681 |