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Epileptic vs Paralytic - What's the difference?

epileptic | paralytic |

As adjectives the difference between epileptic and paralytic

is that epileptic is of or relating to epilepsy while paralytic is affected by paralysis; paralysed.

As nouns the difference between epileptic and paralytic

is that epileptic is a person who has epilepsy while paralytic is someone suffering from paralysis.

epileptic

English

Alternative forms

* epileptick (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to epilepsy.
  • Of or relating to an epileptic or epileptics (epileptic people).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has epilepsy.
  • (archaic) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.

    • paralytic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * paralytick (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone suffering from paralysis.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "paralytic")

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
  • * Prior
    • the cold, shaking, paralytic hand
  • Pertaining to paralysis.
  • (UK, Australia, Irish) Very drunk.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Para-olympics , group=aus.jokes , author=Ben McCulloch , date=August 18 , year=1996 , passage=Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
    ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Gundagai - Last Use Of Line? , group=aus.rail , author=David McLoughlin , date=January 3 , year=1999 , passage=I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=ablett no from hall of fame , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=Peter Ryan , date=May 24 , year=2001 , passage=He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=On the Isle of Man. , group=free.jokes , author=C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l , date=April 16 , year=2002 , passage=On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic . He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it." citation

    Derived terms

    * paralytically Geordie English