Synonyms and Antonyms of spasmodic
1
lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrence
- spasmodic 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, violent
broken, disconnected, fragmentary, interrupted
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, stray
capricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, wavering
changeable, fickle, variable, volatile
changeless, equable, even, stable, stationary, uniform
unchanging, unvarying, unwavering
methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic
unrelenting, unremitting
2
easily excited by nature
- a 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, volcanic
anxious, edgy, flibbertigibbety, nervy, tense, uptight
emotional, emotionalistic, hypersensitive, intense, sensitive, soulful
dramatic, histrionic, melodramatic
irascible, irritable, perturbable, prickly, testy, touchy
