Meaning of EPISODIC
| Pronunciation: | | `epi'sâdik
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- [adj] limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"
- [adj] occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"
- [adj] of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"
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| | Synonyms: | | divided, impermanent, occasional, temporary, unpredictable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ep`i*so"dic\, Episodical \Ep`i*so"dic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
['e]pisodique. See {Episode}.]
Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. --
{Ep`i*so"dic*al*ly}, adv.
Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical
though it be, is an excellent English portrait. --H.
James.
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| | Related Terms: | | aimless, broken, broken off, by the way, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, desultory, deviative, digressive, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, discursive, disjunctive, excursive, fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intercalary, interjectional, intermittent, interpolative, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, loose, maundering, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, parenthetic, parenthetical, patchy, rambling, roving, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic, spotty, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive, wandering |
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