spastic

1. 1.

   relating to or characterized by spasm

   “a spastic colon”

   “spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy”
2. 2.

   suffering from spastic paralysis

   “a spastic child”

   Similarill
3. 3.

   affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm

   “convulsive motions”

   “his body made a spasmodic jerk”

   “spastic movements”

   Synonymsconvulsivespasmodic

   Similarunsteady

1. 1.

   a person suffering from spastic paralysis

   Broaderparalytic

Other forms of spastic

plural

spastics·

comparative

spasticer·

superlative

spasticest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spastic

What does spastic mean?

spastic means "relating to or characterized by spasm". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spastic?

spastic has 2 syllables: spas-tic. The stress falls on "spas". In IPA it is /ˈspæstɪk/.

What is another word for spastic?

Close synonyms include convulsive, spasmodic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spastic a common word?

spastic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.