Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: epileptic
IPA transcription: [,ɛpɪl'ɛptɪk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: epileptic
    Meaning: of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy; "epileptic seizure"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: epileptic
    Meaning: a person who has epilepsy
Usage examples
  • The kindness was too much for the poor epileptic creature.
  • She did not see the fall, but heard his scream--the strange, peculiar scream, long familiar to her--the scream of the epileptic falling in a fit.
  • Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with indescribably vague epileptic shocks.