Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy: an apoplectic fit.
- adj. Having or inclined to have apoplexy.
- adj. Exhibiting symptoms associated with apoplexy.
- adj. Extremely angry; furious: "members of Congress who otherwise become apoplectic about wasteful government spending” ( Dan Morgan).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. A person affected with or predisposed to apoplexy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy.
- n. One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy
Examples
“So the girliemen don't need to go gettin 'apoplectic on us yet!”
“Mostly, I’ve spent the past week in apoplectic rage at the various slights visited upon the British people by the ones in charge.”
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“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.”
“If the above responses appear 'apoplectic', I can only wonder how the upcoming Congressional oversight hearings will sound.”
“There was a report that some in the Bush administration, having shown him what they 'had,' were "apoplectic" about Chirac.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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