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apoplectic

[ ap-uh-plek-tik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
  2. having or inclined to apoplexy.
  3. intense enough to threaten or cause apoplexy:

    an apoplectic rage.

  4. extremely angry; furious:

    He became apoplectic at the mere mention of the subject.



noun

  1. a person having or predisposed to apoplexy. apoplexy.

apoplectic

/ ˌæpəˈplɛktɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to apoplexy
  2. informal.
    furious
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a person having apoplexy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌapoˈplectically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • apo·plecti·cal·ly adverb
  • postap·o·plectic adjective
  • pseudo·apo·plectic adjective
  • pseudo·apo·plecti·cal adjective
  • pseudo·apo·plecti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of apoplectic1

First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin apoplēcticus, from Greek apoplēktikós “pertaining to a (paralytic) stroke,” equivalent to apóplēkt(os) “struck down” (derivative of apoplḗssein ) + -ikos -ic
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Example Sentences

In the immediate aftermath of the oil spill, apoplectic Southerners cast their disdain towards the North.

Editors were apoplectic, and they showed it by quitting en masse, leaving Mays to pick up the pieces.

It is a seething, boiling, roiling, apoplectic revulsion at the very idea of unions.

Hits several key buttons, not the least of which is that it sends the media into apoplectic shock, which the right wing loves.

Studios such as Disney and Paramount are apoplectic about the billions of dollars in revenue being lost to rampant online piracy.

"You have told me that before," roared the portly gentleman, waxing almost apoplectic.

Ferocity nearly inarticulate, fury almost apoplectic, were expressed by the face above the weather-worn rail.

But I am afraid that cook will have an apoplectic fit if he isn't careful, the way he was waving his arms and carrying on.

About noon, leaving the parlour, he was found a few minutes after in an apoplectic fit, or a seizure resembling apoplexy.

It was an apoplectic seizure, the doctors told us later, brought on by excessive nervous irritation of the brain.

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