Apoplectic

Word APOPLECTIC
Character 10
Hyphenation ap o plec tic
Pronunciations /ˌæpəˈplɛktɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Apoplectic"

What do we mean by apoplectic?

Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy. adjective

Having or inclined to have apoplexy. adjective

Exhibiting symptoms associated with apoplexy. adjective

Extremely angry; furious. adjective

Of the nature of or pertaining to apoplexy; affected with apoplexy: as, an apoplectic fit; an apoplectic patient.

Predisposed or tending to apoplexy: as, an apoplectic person; an apoplectic habit of body.

3. Serving to cure apoplexy: as, “apoplectic balsam,” Addison, Travels, Italy.

A person affected with or predisposed to apoplexy. noun

One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy. noun

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy. adjective

Of, or relating to apoplexy. adjective

Marked by extreme anger or fury. adjective

Effused with blood. adjective

Pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy adjective

A person suffering from apoplexy.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Apoplectic

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The word "apoplectic" in example sentences

I believe the term apoplectic would be appropriate should such an event come to pass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the girliemen don't need to go gettin 'apoplectic on us yet! ❋ David (2005)

Mostly, I’ve spent the past week in apoplectic rage at the various slights visited upon the British people by the ones in charge. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only I say it real apoplectic, which is the same as apologetic except you are also still pissed. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1990)

I can best describe as apoplectic chairs whose legs were fashioned like aquatic plants; tables upheld by tortured naked women; lighting fixtures in the form of tassels, and such horrors, in many houses of to-day under the guise of being "authentic period furniture." ❋ Elsie De Wolfe (N/A)

Strine, however, pointed out that none of the journalists quoted Dimon directly on this point, sourcing the information instead to an interview with former Bear CEO Alan Schwartz or, in the case of Sorkin, who reported that Dimon was "apoplectic" over the guarantee, to an unnamed person involved or briefed on the talks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And, as you've surely heard, "its winning of the Palme d'Or, the top prize at Cannes, last May provoked the conservative British press into an 'apoplectic' reaction, as Mr Laverty described it." ❋ Unknown (2007)

If the above responses appear 'apoplectic', I can only wonder how the upcoming Congressional oversight hearings will sound. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's not going to pass by an overwhelming margin, and if you listen to CBC Radio, you'll hear the same kind of apoplectic and apocalyptic predictions of fire and brimstone from their collection of right-wing loons (not to be confused with the loonies, which are the one-dollar coins), but most Canadians are pretty mellow about issues that come under the category of live-and-let-live. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There was a report that some in the Bush administration, having shown him what they 'had,' were "apoplectic" about Chirac. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

At this point, unless firmly disciplined, I tend to splutter a bit and undergo a kind of apoplectic fit of indignation at the bone-headed stupidity of the human mind. ❋ Michael Allen (2005)

Mr. Meredith, who had not seen the toad, wondered if she had been attacked with some kind of apoplectic or paralytic seizure, and ran in alarm to her assistance. ❋ Lucy Maud (1919)

His Excellency happened to fall down in a kind of apoplectic fit, when he was paying a morning visit in the house of an acquaintance. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Poor Mr. Davison turned perfectly white; he fidgeted about in his chair; cast a look of the most deadly fear and aversion at the fatal dish he had been so attentive to before; and, muttering "apoplectic," closed his lips, and did not open them again all dinner-time. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

That didn't stop Jobs, "apoplectic" over AT&T's slow pace of upgrading its patchy network and its foot-dragging over such features as iPhone data tethering, from threatening to dump ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cowan recalled how then Reform Party MP Stephen Harper was "apoplectic" when the Liberal government in 1994 brought in a 21-page omnibus bill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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