Episodic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Episodic \Ep`i*so"dic\, Episodical \Ep`i*so"dic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
     ['e]pisodique. See {Episode}.]
     Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. --
     {Ep`i*so"dic*al*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical
           though it be, is an excellent English portrait. --H.
                                                    James.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  episodic
       adj 1: of writing or narration; divided into or composed of
              episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents
              don't always hang together"
       2: occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals;
          "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn:
           {occasional}]
       3: limited in duration to a single episode; "an account
          concerned primarily with episodic events such as the
          succession of rulers"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "episodic":
     aimless, broken, broken off, by the way, chopped-off, choppy,
     decousu, desultory, deviative, digressive, disconnected,
     discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, discursive, disjunctive,
     excursive, fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intercalary,
     interjectional, intermittent, interpolative, interrupted,
     irregular, jagged, jerky, loose, maundering, noncontinuous,
     nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, parenthetic,
     parenthetical, patchy, rambling, roving, scrappy, snatchy,
     spasmodic, spotty, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive,
     wandering