Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a person who has epilepsy;
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy;
- Example: "epileptic seizure"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Epileptic \Ep`i*lep"tic\, a. [L. epilepticus, Gr. ? : cf. F.
['e]pileptique.]
Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Epileptic \Ep`i*lep"tic\, n.
1. One affected with epilepsy.
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2. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
epileptic
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy;
"epileptic seizure"
n 1: a person who has epilepsy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "epileptic":
allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, cancerous, case,
chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous,
encephalitic, incurable, inpatient, invalid, laryngitic, leprous,
luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic,
neuritic, outpatient, palsied, paralytic, patient, phthisic,
pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic,
rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, shut-in, sick person, spastic,
sufferer, tabetic, tabid, terminal case, the sick, tubercular,
tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, valetudinarian