The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrhythmic \Ar*rhyth"mic\, Arrhythmous \Ar*rhyth"mous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? rhythm.] (Med.) Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, "without rhythm," in relation to musical sensibility, Modern Latin, from Greek arrhythmos "irregular, unrhythmical, without measure," from a- "not" (see a- (3)) + rhythmos (see rhythm). Medical arrhythmia "irregularity of pulse" is attested from 1888, from Greek noun of action from arrhythmos. Related: Arrhythmically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Without rhythm. 2 Suffering from cardiac arrhythmia.
WordNet
adj. without regard for rhythm [syn: arrhythmical]
not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: jerking, jerky, unsteady]
Usage examples of "arrhythmic".
The soft, arrhythmic beat of steel drum bands and bird song welcomed them to the festivities.
She walked slowly away from the bank of phones, turned into a video garden where the heavy music warred with the arrhythmic beep and jangle of game consoles.
Sheila broke off in a string of arrhythmic hiccups that gradually faded to sobs.
The chanting was picked up by others, and soon most of the people were deeply involved in a mesmerizing sequence that consisted of repetitive phrases sung in a pulsating beat with little change in tone, alternating with arrhythmic drumming that had more tonal variation than the voices.
Blaster bolts flashed through every angle, their bursts an arrhythmic drumbeat under the howling chorus of the Korun shield-weapons.
Her heart picked up an arrhythmic beat, as the impulse to run snarled itself inside her brain.
His heart was pounding inside his chest like a small drum, not in its usual steady march but in a wild, arrhythmic abandon.
He could feel his heart laboring in his chest, a pounding arrhythmic tattoo as it pumped the blood through his body.
Incidentally, the arrhythmic meaty whacking sound is Booger hitting himself in the thigh and chest in there, which self-abuse is a textbook symptom of an anxiously depressed episode.
Globes, the maddening arrhythmic drip of the kitchen sink and the bad smell a mixture of mildew and putrid fruit.
The chanting was picked up by others, and soon most of the people were deeply involved in a mesmerizing sequence that consisted of repetitive phrases sung in a pulsating beat with little change in tone, alternating with arrhythmic drumming that had more tonal variation than the voices.
People wearing pacemakers to regulate arrhythmic hearts were cyborgs, and that was a good thing.
He could feel his heart laboring in his chest, a pounding arrhythmic tattoo as it pumped the blood through his body.