spastic
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a person suffering from spastic paralysis
Types & categories
- paralytic hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
relating to or characterized by spasm
a spastic colon
Related & opposite
- spasticity derivation
- cerebral palsy derivation
- spasm pertains to
Sense 3 adjective
suffering from spastic paralysis
a spastic child
Related & opposite
- spasticity derivation
- cerebral palsy derivation
- sick similar to
Sense 4 adjective
affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
convulsive motions
Related & opposite
- spasticity derivation
- convulse derivation
- convulse derivation
- unsteady similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | paralytic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | spasticity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cerebral palsy |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | spasm |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | spasticity |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cerebral palsy |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | sick |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | spasticity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | convulse |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | convulse |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | unsteady |