APOPLECTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apoplectic mean? 

• APOPLECTIC (adjective)
  The adjective APOPLECTIC has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy

  Familiarity information: APOPLECTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOPLECTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

apoplectic seizure

Pertainym:

apoplexy (a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain)

Derivation:

apoplexy (a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain)

 Context examples 

Judge Blount glared at him with apoplectic countenance, and silence reigned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But “no, he was a short-necked, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As Jo waved her hands and gave a sigh of rapture, the family went off into a gale of merriment, and Mr. Laurence laughed till they thought he'd have an apoplectic fit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He lingered all day, breathing loudly like the old buccaneer at home in his apoplectic fit, but the bones of his chest had been crushed by the blow and his skull fractured in falling, and some time in the following night, without sign or sound, he went to his Maker.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)