Spasmodically

3 definitions found

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

  Spasmodical \Spas*mod"ic*al\, a.
     Same as {Spasmodic}, a. -- {Spas*mod"ic*al*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  spasmodically
       adv 1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked
              violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: {jerkily}]
       2: in spurts and fits; "I began to write intermittently and
          spasmodically"

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

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "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