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paraletic

paraletic is the misspelling of paralytic.

Meaning of paralytic

Adjective

paralytic (comparative more paralytic, superlative most paralytic)

  1. Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
    • the cold, shaking, paralytic hand1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
    Synonyms:
    frozen, immobilized
  2. Pertaining to paralysis.
  3. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang) Very drunk.
    • 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.1996 August 18, Ben McCulloch, “Para-olympics”, in aus.jokes (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    drunk

See all 5 meanings of paralytic

Forms of paraletic

comparativemore paraletic
superlativemost paraletic

Questions about paraletic

What is paraletic the misspelling of?
Paraletic is the misspelling of paralytic.

Words near paraletic in the dictionary

  1. paralemniscal
  2. paralepidid
  3. paralepidids
  4. paralepses
  5. paralepsis
  6. paraletic
  7. paralexia
  8. paralexias
  9. paralexic
  10. paralexical
  11. paralexicon

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