Definitions for apoplectic

apoplectic ap·o·plec·tic

Spelling: [ap-uh-plek-tik]
IPA: /ˌæp əˈplɛk tɪk/

Apoplectic is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in apoplectic (acceiloppt).

Definitions for apoplectic

adjective

  1. of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.
  2. having or inclined to apoplexy.
  3. intense enough to threaten or cause apoplexy:
  4. extremely angry; furious:

noun

  1. a person having or predisposed to apoplexy.

Origin of apoplectic

1605-15; Late Latin apoplēcticus Greek apoplēktikós pertaining to a (paralytic) stroke, equivalent to apóplēkt(os) struck down (verbid of apoplḗssein) + -ikos -ic

Examples for apoplectic

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

Mr. Burgwyn was suffering from an apoplectic stroke, and was lying insensible.

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

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

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

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

But I mean to keep on arguing until I die of apoplectic rage.

Schwinn's face turned an apoplectic red and he became quiet.

This one was dropsical, the other subject to apoplectic fits.

The woes of the apoplectic mate had begun to bore him long before.

Word Value for apoplectic
Scrable

18

Words with friends

23

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