'Spasmodically' definitions:
Definition of 'spasmodically'
(from WordNet)
adverb
With spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: spasmodically, jerkily]
adverb
In spurts and fits; "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"
Definition of 'Spasmodically'
From: GCIDE
- Spasmodical \Spas*mod"ic*al\, a. Same as Spasmodic, a. -- {Spas*mod"ic*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spasmodically'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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