Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, a. [L. spleneticus: cf. F.
spl['e]n['e]tique. See Spleen.]
Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
"Splenetic guffaw." --G. Eliot.
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You humor me when I am sick;
Why not when I am splenetic? --Pope.
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Syn: Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, n.
A person affected with spleen.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
splenetic
adj 1: of or relating to the spleen [syn: splenic, lienal]
2: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House
and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty
and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly,
waspish]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "splenetic":
acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
acrimonious, adrenal, bearish, bitchy, bitter, blase, burning,
cankered, cantankerous, caustic, choleric, churlish, crabbed,
cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable,
dispirited, eccrine, embittered, endocrine, excitable, exocrine,
fed-up, feisty, fractious, glandular, glandulous, gonadal,
good and tired, holocrine, huffish, huffy, humoral, irascible,
irked, irritable, jaded, life-weary, luteal, mean, melancholic,
melancholy, merocrine, ornery, ovarian, pancreatic, perverse,
prostatic, rancorous, rankled, resentful, resenting, satiated,
sick, sick of, snappish, sore, spiteful, spleeny, stewing, testy,
thymic, thyroidal, tired, tired of, tired of living,
tired to death, ugly, virulent, waspish, wearied, weariful, weary,
weary unto death, world-weary
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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