1. Relating to or characterized by spasm
   "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"
    
2. Suffering from spastic paralysis
   "a spastic child"
    
3. Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
   "spastic movements";
   - convulsive, spasmodic

1. A person suffering from spastic paralysis
   "The charity raised funds to support spastics and their families"
    
2. A stupid person; used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
   - dunce, dunderhead [informal], numskull [informal], blockhead [informal], bonehead [informal], lunkhead [N. Amer], hammerhead [informal], knucklehead [informal], loggerhead [archaic], muttonhead [informal], dumbass [N. Amer], lamebrain [informal], pea brain [informal], chowderhead [N. Amer, informal], chucklehead [informal], bubblehead [informal], numbskull [informal], clunk [N. Amer, informal], dumbhead [N. Amer, informal], twonk [Brit, informal], dumbo [informal], thickhead [informal], lunk [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: spastics

See also: ill, sick, unsteady

Type of: dolt [informal], dullard, meatball [N. Amer, informal], paralytic, pillock [Brit, informal], pudden-head [US, informal], pudding head [informal], stupe [N. Amer, informal], stupid [informal], stupid person

Encyclopedia: Spastic