Apoplectic
of or relating to .
having or inclined to .
intense enough to threaten or cause :
an apoplectic rage.
a person having or predisposed to .
Contemporary Examples
It is a seething, boiling, roiling, apoplectic revulsion at the very idea of unions.
Can a Senator Stop a Union? Bob Corker Is Certainly Trying Michael Tomasky February 13, 2014
Republican leaders were apoplectic and anxious to exact retribution.
The Man Who Brought Down Spitzer Scott Horton December 8, 2008
Editors were apoplectic, and they showed it by quitting en masse, leaving Mays to pick up the pieces.
It Was All a Dream: Drama, Bullshit, and the Rebirth of The Source Magazine Alex Suskind October 13, 2014
Studios such as Disney and Paramount are apoplectic about the billions of dollars in revenue being lost to rampant online piracy.
Can Chris Dodd Save Hollywood? Lois Romano May 23, 2011
In the immediate aftermath of the oil spill, apoplectic Southerners cast their disdain towards the North.
Deepwater Horizon: Life Drowning in Oil Samuel Fragoso November 1, 2014
Historical Examples
He had been working in his ground, and suddenly fell down in an apoplectic fit.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 David Collins
The woes of the apoplectic mate had begun to bore him long before.
Chance Joseph Conrad
Mr. Jobling’s purple visage and pendulous jowl spoke plainly the apoplectic and painful nature of his emotions.
The White Blackbird Hudson Douglas
This one was dropsical, the other subject to apoplectic fits.
The Nabob Alphonse Daudet
Mr. Burgwyn was suffering from an apoplectic stroke, and was lying insensible.
Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux
adjective
of or relating to apoplexy
(informal) furious
noun
a person having apoplexy
adj.
1610s, “involving apoplexy,” from French apoplectique (16c.), from Latin apoplecticus, from Greek apoplektikos “disabled by a stroke, crippled, struck dumb,” from apoplektos, verbal adjective of apoplessein (see apoplexy). Meaning “showing symptoms of apoplexy” (1721) gradually shaded into “enraged, very angry.”
apoplectic ap·o·plec·tic (āp’ə-plěk’tĭk)
adj.
Relating to, having, or predisposed to apoplexy.
ap’o·plec’ti·cal·ly adv.
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