English Explanatory Dictionary

anaspeptic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Very distressed.

Pronunciation

/æn.əsˈpɛp.tɪk/

Word forms

anaspeptic more anaspeptic most anaspeptic

Etymology

Blend of ana- + dyspeptic. From a 1987 episode of the British television comedy Blackadder, in which Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts about his newly completed dictionary containing every word in the English language. Blackadder subsequently uses a number of newly-invented words to perplex him: "I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."

Related words

contrafibularities frasmotic compunctuous pericombobulation
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