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Definition: Spastic |
SpasticAdjective1. Relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy". 2. Suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child". 3. Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements". Noun1. A person suffering from spastic paralysis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spastic" was first used: 1753. (references) |
Etymology: Spastic \Spas"tic\, adjective. [Latin expression spasticus, Greek, from to draw: compare to the French expression spastique. See Spasm.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | 1. of the nature of or characterized by spasms. 2. hypertonic, so that the muscles are stiff and the movements awkward. 3. a person exhibiting spasticity, such as occurs in spastic paralysis or in cerebral palsy. (references) |
Medicine | Relating or referring to spasm; affected with spasm; characterized by a spasm or spasms. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Relating or belonging to spasm; produced by spasm; one affected with spasticity. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: SpasticSynonyms: convulsive (adj), spasmodic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spastic |
| English words defined with "spastic": acromyotonia ♦ spastic abasia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spastic": Cri-du-Chat Syndrome ♦ HTLV-I ♦ Member States ♦ Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome ♦ toe reflexes. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Congratulations, you have a spastic colon. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Spastic cerebral palsy. (references) | |
Mental impairment is even more common among children with spastic quadriplegia. (references) | ||
Over time, legs and arms may become spastic, and mental functions may deteriorate. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Spastic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.18% of the time. "Spastic" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.18% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.82% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "spastic": spastic abasia ♦ spastic bladder ♦ Spastic Colon ♦ spastic paralysis. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "spastic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spastik, i pavullnetshëm (reflex, unconscious, unwilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصاب بالشلل التشنجي, تشنجي (convulsive, fitful, spasmodic), المصاب بالشلل التشنجي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спастичен, спазматичен (spasmodic), болен от церебрален паралич. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 痉挛 (spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spastický (spasmodic), křeèovitý (convulsive, fitful, forced, spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spastisk/spastiker, spastisk (convulsive, spasmodic), spastiker, spasmodisk (spasmodic), krampagtig (convulsive, spasmodic), convulsiv (convulsive, spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spastisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مبتلابه فلج تشنجی , تشنجی (Jerky, Spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vajaaliikkeinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spastique, spasmodique (spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | spastisch, Spastiker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπασμωδικόσ (convulsive, fitful, jerky, jumpy, spasmodic), σπαστικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עויתי (convulsive, spasmodic), חול" עויתות, ספסטי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | görcsös (convulsive, cramp, fitful, spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spastico (spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경 (Convulsion, jerk, spasm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhieeneydagh (spasmodic, supplemental, supplementary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asticspay espasmódico (clonic, cramped, fitful, spasmodic), espástico. (various references) спастический (convulsive, spasmodic). (various references) spastički. (various references) espástico. (various references) spastisker, spastisk. (various references) spastik kimse, spastik, kasılımlı, beyin felci olan kimse. (various references) судорожний (fitful, paroxysmal, snatchy, spasmodic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | spastikos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spastic": spastically, spasticities, spasticity, spastics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spastic": bronchospastic, vasospastic. (additional references) | |
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"Spastic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Psamtik, Saposnik, Shastric, Spazio, suastic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "spastic" (pronounced 'Spas"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aspics, pastis, spaits, spicas. | |
-2 letters: apsis, aspic, aspis, casts, cists, pacts, pasts, picas, pitas, satis, scats, spait, spats, spica, spics, spits, tapis. | |
-3 letters: acts, aits, asci, asps, caps, cast, cats, cist, pacs, pact, pass, past, pats, pias, pica, pics, piss, pita, pits, psis, psst, sacs, saps, sati, scat, sics, sips, sits, spas, spat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-p-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: escapist, plastics, potassic, spaciest, spastics. | |
+2 letters: adscripts, campsites, escapists, pacifists, pastiches, piscators, pistaches, practises, scotopias, slapstick, spacesuit, speciates, spiccatos, tieclasps. | |
+3 letters: anapestics, apostacies, cadetships, caespitose, cathepsins, cisplatins, cityscapes, dispatches, dysplastic, mispatches, pasticcios, patchiness, patristics, pistachios, prefascist, psoriatics, scapolites, scrappiest, slapsticks, sociopaths, spacesuits, spasticity, specialest, specialist. | |
+4 letters: antiseptics, archpriests, ascriptions, capitalises, capitalisms, capitalists, captionless, catalepsies, constipates, dispatchers, episcopates, esemplastic, factorships, interspaces, landscapist, manuscripts, metaphysics, miscaptions, nonplastics, pacificists, pasticheurs, pharmacists, physicalist, plasticenes, plasticines, plasticizes, postclassic, prefascists, psittacines, psittacoses, psittacosis, scyphistoma, septicemias, sophistical, spasmolytic, spastically, specialists, specialties, speciations, spermacetis, supplicants, supplicates, supremacist, tapersticks, transcripts, typicalness, vasospastic. | |
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