Usually means: Causing or characterized by spasms.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word convulsive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. convulsive: Merriam-Webster
  2. convulsive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convulsive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convulsive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convulsive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Convulsive, convulsive: Wordnik
  7. convulsive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. convulsive: Wiktionary
  9. convulsive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convulsive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convulsive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. convulsive: Dictionary.com
  13. convulsive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Convulsive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Convulsive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. convulsive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. convulsive: Rhymezone
  18. Convulsive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. convulsive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. convulsive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. convulsive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. convulsive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. convulsive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convulsive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convulsive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. convulsive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. convulsive: Medical dictionary

(Note: See convulsively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Marked by or having the nature of convulsions.
adjective:  Having or producing convulsions.

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