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Adjective for soap operas
Answer for the clue "Adjective for soap operas ", 8 letters:
episodic
Alternative clues for the word episodic
- Like many TV series, is copied fraudulently
- Soap's so huge (featuring one unpleasant character)
- Released in segments
- Divided into tenuously related parts
- In various parts, classic tours thus restricted by passport?
- Arranged as a series of incidents
- Fragmented story going on at length about lives upset party
Word definitions for episodic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Episodic \Ep`i*so"dic\, Episodical \Ep`i*so"dic*al\, a. [Cf. F. 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. [1913 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, from episode + -ic . Episodical is from 1660s.
Usage examples of episodic.
He was able to craft workable nonaggression pacts with the Gaels, Bos Kashi, and Sons of Freedom that have eliminated the episodic but disastrous interclan wars, while continuing the tradition of individual feuds and vendettas that all these people seem to relish so much.
Granted that psychologists have described a whole taxonomy of memory, procedural and declarative, episodic and semantic, working and reference, should one expect similar underlying biochemical and cellular changes to be involved in each, or would every form of memory have its own special biochemistry?
I have taken the liberty of translating it into a more elevated style and redacting it into a coherent, if episodic narrative, which is copied out below for your majesty’s pleasure.