anaspeptic

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/æn.əsˈpɛp.tɪk/

adjective

Very distressed.

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Meanings

adjectiveanaspeptic (comparative more anaspeptic, superlative most anaspeptic)

comparative more anaspeptic · superlative most anaspeptic

  1. humorousVery distressed.

    I am frasmotic, not to mention anaspeptic, at the thought of Ireland facing him next week 😐

    2020 April 14, Andy McGeady (@andymcgeady), Twitter

Origin

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."

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APA

anaspeptic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anaspeptic

MLA

“anaspeptic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anaspeptic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anaspeptic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anaspeptic.

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