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Apoplectic vs Incensed - What's the difference?

apoplectic | incensed |

As adjectives the difference between apoplectic and incensed

is that apoplectic is of, or relating to apoplexy while incensed is enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.

As a verb incensed is

past tense of incense.

apoplectic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to apoplexy.
  • Marked by extreme anger or fury.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=13 March , author=Chris Bevan , title=Stoke 2 - 1 West Ham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The decision left Potters boss Tony Pulis apoplectic on the touchline, a feeling his West Ham counterpart Avram Grant was to share immediately after the break. }}
  • (archaic) Effused with blood.

    • Quotations

    * 1960 — , To Kill a Mockingbird , ch 11 *: Once she heard Jem refer to our father as 'Atticus' and her reaction was apoplectic . * 2005 — (author?), The New Yorker , (page?) (12 Dec) *: "Speak of the devil—he marches through the door, and becomes apoplectic when he learns of the upheaval."

    Related terms

    * apoplexy

    incensed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enraged]]; [[infuriate, infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (incense)