Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by spasms: a spastic colon; a spastic form of cerebral palsy.
- adj. Affected by spastic paralysis.
- adj. Offensive Slang Clumsy or inept.
- n. A person affected with spastic paralysis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In medicine, pertaining or relating to spasm; spasmodic: as, spastic contractions; spastic remedies.
- In zoology, convulsive, as an infusorian; of or pertaining to the Spastica.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, related to, or affected by spasm.
- adj. Of or related to spastic paralysis.
- adj. Clumsy.
- adj. Hyperactive, excited, and random manner.
- n. A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
- adj. relating to or characterized by spasm
- n. a person suffering from spastic paralysis
- adj. suffering from spastic paralysis
Etymologies
- Latin spasticus, from Greek spastikos, from spān, to pull.
Examples
“Yeah, spastic, is a word that they have been trying to phaze out is generally linked with people that have mental conditions.”
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“The word spastic is used differently depending on location which has led to some controversy and misunderstanding.”
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“In India the word spastic is used without negative connotations, with The Spastics Society of India being India’s most noted non-profit and a non-governmental organization NGO, working for Neuro-Muscular and Developmental Disabilities.”
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“Why Robert Bresson didn't keep the pathetic Jerry Lewis wannabe from staggering around like a spastic is a mystery that may never be solved.”
“And more than that, Miles, it does really offend those people who are disabled and who have cerebral palsy, because it refers to their very serious condition, and being spastic, which is a very serious form and a reaction to having the cerebral palsy.”
“I said this already but was called a spastic (something the mod's didn't give a warning for).”
“The child suffers from a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic quadriplegia, according to Barnes, who argued to jurors during opening statements Monday that midwife and nurse Fatima Arefian of Gaithersburg, Md., and Dr. Cameron Darvish of Paterson, did not act quickly enough in ordering and completing the C-section.”
“It was to get this kind of spastic balletic violence.”
“So the intention there was to get this kind of spastic motion of genuine violence, at the same time, the attenuation of time that one experiences when you see something like a terrible automobile accident or, in my case, certain occurrences in the war.”
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