Dictionary Definition
episodic adj
1 of writing or narration; divided into or
composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't
always hang together"
2 occurring or appearing at usually irregular
intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"
[syn: occasional]
3 limited in duration to a single episode; "an
account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the
succession of rulers"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
(US) IPA: /ˌɛpɪˈsɑdɪk/-
- Rhymes: -ɒdɪk
Adjective
- relating to an episode
- 1999, The Limey (movie)
- When I'm not honing my craft in episodic television, I do double-duty as a voice coach.
- 1999, The Limey (movie)
- sporadic, happening
infrequently and
irregularly
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- Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.
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- made up a sequence
of seemingly unconnected episodes
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- I just read five attempts at episodic novels -- has nobody heard of a plot anymore?
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Extensive Definition
Episodic can refer to
- The nature of television series that are divided into short programs. See Episode
- Episodic memory relates to the types of memory that result from specific incidents in a life time.
- In Geology episodic refers to events that occur or have occurred periodically. Length of the period may be even thousands or millions of years.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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