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spastic

UK/ˈspastɪk/US/ˈspæstɪk/

spastic adjective: of, relating to, or affected by spasm.

Adjective

spastic (comparative more spastic, superlative most spastic)

  1. Of, relating to, or affected by spasm.
  2. Of or relating to spastic paralysis.
  3. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Incompetent or physically uncoordinated.
  4. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Hyperactive or behaving erratically.

Noun

spastic (plural spastics)

  1. (especially, offensive) A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
  2. (colloquial, derogatory, especially, offensive) A stupid, clumsy person.
    • ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17
    • Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
      Alan Partridge: Yep.
      Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
      Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!1997 December 1, Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, “To Kill a Mocking Alan”, in I'm Alan Partridge

spastic meaning in Bengali

spastic in Bengali

খিঁচুনিযুক্ত, পক্ষাঘাতগ্রস্ত

Forms of spastic

Adjective
comparativemore spastic
superlativemost spastic
Noun
pluralspastics

Origin of spastic

Learned borrowing from Latin spasticus, from Ancient Greek σπαστικός (spastikós, “drawing in”). By surface analysis, spasm + -tic. Cf. French spastique and see also spasm.

Words formed from spastic

Words that rhyme with spastic

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Questions about spastic

What does spastic mean?
Spastic means of, relating to, or affected by spasm.
What is spastic in Bengali?
Spastic in Bengali is খিঁচুনিযুক্ত, পক্ষাঘাতগ্রস্ত. See Spastic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is spastic?
Spastic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce spastic?
Spastic is pronounced /ˈspastɪk/ (UK).

Words near spastic in the dictionary

  1. spasmotin
  2. spasmotoxin
  3. spasmous
  4. spasms
  5. spasmus nutans
  6. spastic
  7. spastic abasia
  8. spastic colitis
  9. spastic colon
  10. spastic tetraplegia
  11. spastically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spastic (page history and authors); spastic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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