Apoplectic vs. Apocalyptic — What's the Difference?

Overcome with anger; furious

Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world

Relating to or denoting apoplexy (stroke)

Relating to or predicting the end of the world, especially as described in the Bible or another religious text.

Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy

Relating to or predicting widespread destruction or the collapse of civilization

Having or inclined to have apoplexy.

Characterized by predictions of or allusions to a disastrous outcome

Exhibiting symptoms associated with apoplexy.

Of or relating to an apocalypse:

Extremely angry; furious

Of or relating to an apocalypse a revelation, revelatory; prophetic.

(medicine) Of or relating to apoplexy.

Of or relating to an apocalypse a disaster.

(figurative) Marked by extreme anger or fury.

Portending a future apocalypse (disaster, devastation, or doom).

(archaic) Effused with blood.

(nonstandard) Eggcorn of apoplectic.

A person suffering from apoplexy.

One who predicts apocalypse.

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation.

One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4.

Pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy;

The writer of the Apocalypse.

Prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom

Of or relating to an apocalypse