Spastic
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

LAME
A fabric interwoven with threads of metal; "she wore a gold lame dress"

CASE
A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"

5 letters

JERKY
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

JUMPY
Being in a tense state

ROUGH
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

6 letters

BROKEN
Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"

CATCHY
Having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"

CHOPPY
Marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose"

FITFUL
Intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"

PATCHY
Irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.; "a patchy essay"; "patchy fog"

SHUTIN
Surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"

SPOTTY
Lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty"

UNEVEN
Not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"

WOBBLY
A member of the Industrial Workers of the World

7 letters

ERRATIC
Likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster

FIDGETY
Nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child"

HALTING
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

INVALID
Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"

JERKING
An abrupt spasmodic movement

JIGGETY

PATIENT
The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

SCRAPPY
Full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral"

SEISMIC
Subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration

SNATCHY

SPASMIC

SPASTIC
A person suffering from spastic paralysis

THESICK

TWITCHY

UNEQUAL
Lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"

VEERING
The act of turning aside suddenly

CRIPPLE
Someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

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CRIPPLED
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

LURCHING

ORGASMIC

RAMBLING
Of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

SPORADIC
Recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"

SUFFERER
One who suffers for the sake of principle

UNSTEADY
Subject to change or variation; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice"

VARIABLE
A quantity that can assume any of a set of values

WAVERING
Indecision in speech or action

WOBBLING
(of sound) fluctuating unsteadily; "a low-pitched wobbling sound"

9 letters

ARTHRITIC
A person afflicted with arthritis; "the hands of an elderly arthritic"

CAREENING

DESULTORY
Marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"

DEVIATIVE

DYSPEPTIC
Suffering from dyspepsia

ECCENTRIC
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

ECLAMPTIC

EPILEPTIC
A person who has epilepsy

GUTTERING

INCURABLE
Incapable of being cured; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking"

INPATIENT
A patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated

IRREGULAR
Lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis"

RHEUMATIC
A person suffering with rheumatism

SALTATORY

SPASMATIC

TWITCHETY

TWITCHING
A sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition

UNCERTAIN
Not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown; "an uncertain future"; "a manuscript of uncertain origin"; "plans are still uncertain"; "changes of great if uncertain consequences"; "without further evidence his story must remain uncertain"

UNREGULAR

UNSETTLED
Not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"

UPHEAVING

WANDERING
Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

SPASMODIC
Occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"

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CONVULSIVE
Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements"

APOPLECTIC
Pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy; "apoplectic seizure"

CAPRICIOUS
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

DISASTROUS
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

FLICKERING
Shining unsteadily

HERKYJERKY

INCONSTANT
Likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare

NONUNIFORM
Not homogeneous

OUTPATIENT
A patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated

PAROXYSMAL
Accompanied by or of the nature of paroxysms

SICKPERSON
A person suffering from an illness

STAGGERING
So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"

UNMETRICAL

11 letters

NONMETRICAL

CATACLYSMIC
Severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

CONSUMPTIVE
A person with pulmonary tuberculosis

FLUCTUATING
Having unpredictable ups and downs; "fluctuating prices"

HETEROCLITE

VELLICATIVE

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DISCONNECTED
Having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group"

IMMETHODICAL

INTERMITTENT
Stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"

INTERMITTING

TERMINALCASE

UNMETHODICAL
Not efficient or methodical; "the project failed through unmethodical planning"

UNRHYTHMICAL
Not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent

UNSYSTEMATIC
Lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization; "unsystematic and fragmentary records"; "he works in an unsystematic manner"

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DISCONTINUOUS
Of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities

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VALETUDINARIAN
Weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health

UNRHYTHMICALLY