as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the coach was so apoplectic when the player missed the free throw that he threw his clipboard onto the court
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Recent Examples of apoplectic
The Connecticut men’s basketball coach, who led the Huskies to the past two NCAA tournament titles, was almost apoplectic about his team’s first half effort in Friday night’s 71-62 loss to Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
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Tim Casey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The Golden State Warriors have extended a final chapter for their dynastic journey, while the Dallas Mavericks are hushing away fake mourners and apoplectic fans.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
The fans are apoplectic, the Trojans have changed athletic directors (from Mike Bohn to Jen Cohen), and president Carol Folt, who hired Riley, is stepping down this summer — all of which suggests significant seat heat.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
In the premiere of the most recent season of Sesame Street, innocent conversations among residents of 123 Sesame Street keep being interrupted by a typically confused and apoplectic Grover.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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Tim Casey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The Golden State Warriors have extended a final chapter for their dynastic journey, while the Dallas Mavericks are hushing away fake mourners and apoplectic fans.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
The fans are apoplectic, the Trojans have changed athletic directors (from Mike Bohn to Jen Cohen), and president Carol Folt, who hired Riley, is stepping down this summer — all of which suggests significant seat heat.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
In the premiere of the most recent season of Sesame Street, innocent conversations among residents of 123 Sesame Street keep being interrupted by a typically confused and apoplectic Grover.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apoplectic
Adjective
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Major tennis governing bodies moved to combat online abuse and published last year a report that attributed nearly half of abusive social media posts to angry gamblers.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
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Testimony in a Placer County murder trial continued Tuesday with an investigator reciting angry emails over a $1.3 million loan for a fledgling business between a Lake Tahoe-area couple and their former Major League Baseball player son-in-law who is accused of shooting them.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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Despite the fact that nobody present has any interest in ecclesiastical architecture, the meetings are hot with petty slights, indignant stares, fragile alliances and hostile incursions.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
7 May 2025
Adjective
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Ripley capped off a furious comeback with a Razor’s Edge toss of Perez onto Giulia, followed by a slam onto a ladder lodged between the first and second ropes.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Then came the very public split between President Trump and Elon Musk, and a flurry of furious Twitter/X and Truth Social postings, aimed at each other with razor-sharp edges.—
Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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Fast, not scared to use his front bumper, don't care if somebody gets mad about it and on the verge of becoming a star.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Madison would play twin sisters in a story that sees a mad prince take in the noble class into his castle while a plague devastates the peasantry.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Further, Israel’s previous attacks on Iran in April and October 2024 managed to degrade Iran’s ballistic and surface-to-air missiles and air defense radar systems.—
Javed Ali,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
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Elliott is a big believer in the importance of ballistic movements like jumping and landing, and also in the power of 3D motion analysis to pick up subtle signs of impending injury.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Like across-the-board tariffs, which would eat into profit margins and infuriate investors.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Apoplectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apoplectic. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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