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epileptics

epileptics is the plural of epileptic.

Meaning of epileptic

Noun

epileptic (plural epileptics)

  1. A person who has epilepsy.
    • The present Immigration Act on the books bars entry to Canada to homosexuals, prostitutes, epileptics, and those said to be "living off the avails of homosexualism or prostitution."1976 December 25, “Canada's Gay Ban”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 2
  2. (archaic) A medicine for the cure of epilepsy.
    Synonyms:
    antiepileptic

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Questions about epileptics

What is epileptics the plural of?
Epileptics is the plural of epileptic.

Words near epileptics in the dictionary

  1. epileptic
  2. epileptical
  3. epileptically
  4. epileptick
  5. epilepticks
  6. epileptics
  7. epileptiform
  8. epileptigenic
  9. epileptogeneses
  10. epileptogenesis
  11. epileptogenic

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