episodic

episodic

adjective

Definition of EPISODIC

1

appearing in parts or numbers that follow regularly <the long novel was filmed for television as an episodic movie that was shown over the course of five evenings>

Synonyms episodic (also episodical), periodical, serialized

Related Words sequential; successive; periodic, recurrent, recurring, regular

2

lacking in steadiness or regularity of occurrence <malaria is characterized by episodic attacks of chills and fever that coincide with mass destruction of blood cells>

Synonyms aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also episodical), erratic, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady

Related Words convulsive, sudden, violent; broken, disconnected, fragmentary, interrupted; aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, odd, random, scattered, slapdash, stray; capricious, changeful, changing, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, varying, wavering; changeable, fickle, variable, volatile

Near Antonyms changeless, equable, even, stable, stationary, uniform; unchanging, unvarying, unwavering; methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic; unrelenting, unremitting

Antonyms constant, continuous, habitual, periodic, regular, repeated, steady

Variants of EPISODIC

episodic also episodical