Spleen

/spliːn/

Synonyms for "spleen" (150 found)

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Closest matches (30)

Noun(2 words)

abdomen acerbity acid acidity acidulousness acrimony anger angst anguish animosity anus anxiety appendix asperitybad humorbad temperbile biliousnessbitter resentmentbitterness

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bitterness of spiritblahsblind gutboredness boredom bowels brain causticity

Strong matches (45)

cecum cheerlessness choler colon corrosiveness despite despitefulness discomfort discomposure discontent dislike dispiritedness displeasure disquiet dissatisfaction dread dullness duodenum emptiness endocardium

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enmity ennui entrailsexistential woefed-upness flatness foregut gall giblets gizzardgnashing of teethgrimness grudge gutshard feelingsheart heartburning hindgut illill humorill natureill temperill-nature ill-will innards

Related words (75)

inner mechanisminquietude insides internals intestine inwards jadedness jejunum joylessness kidney kishkeslack of pleasurelarge intestinelife-weariness liverliver and lightslung malaise malevolence malice

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malignancy melancholy midgut nausea nongratification nonsatisfaction painfulness perineum pump pylorus rancor rankling rectum satiation satiety savorlessnessslow burnsmall intestinesoreness sourness staleness stomach stuffingtaedium vitaetastelessness tediousness tedium ticker tiredness tripe tripes uncomfortableness unease uneasiness unhappiness unpleasure unsatisfaction venomvermiform appendixvexation of spiritvirulence viscera vitals wearifulness weariness works world-weariness wrath

Noun(7 words)

milt moodquick tempershort temperspite temper whim

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Closest matches in this entry: lien, irascibility, abdomen, acerbity, acid.
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Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

10 entries

anatomical structurebad temperemotion feelingill temperlymphatic tissuelymphoid tissuemood organ temperament

More specific

5 entries

anger irritabilityred pulpresentmentwhite pulp

Collocations

6 entries

spleen anatomyspleen functionsplenectomysplenic arterysplenic veinsplenomegaly

Inflections

1 entries

spleens

Derivations

3 entries

splenectomy splenic splenomegaly

Translations

161 translations across 132 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

milt noun (organ)

Ahtna

1 entries

cʼetaeleʼ noun (organ)

Albanian

1 entries

shpretkë noun (organ)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

σπλήν noun (organ)

Ao

1 entries

tepa (Chungli) noun (organ)

Arabic

3 entries

طحال noun (organ)
طحال noun (organ)
طِحَال noun (organ)

Armenian

1 entries

փայծաղ noun (organ)

Asturian

1 entries

bazu noun (organ)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

dalaq noun (organ)

Bashkir

1 entries

талаҡ noun (organ)

Basque

1 entries

bare noun (organ)

Belarusian

1 entries

селязёнка noun (organ)

Bengali

1 entries

প্লীহা noun (organ)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

तिल्ली noun (organ)

Bulgarian

2 entries

дала́к noun (organ)
сле́зка noun (organ)

Burmese

1 entries

သရက်ရွက် noun (organ)

Buryat

1 entries

дэлюун noun (organ)

Cappadocian Greek

1 entries

πεϊσάχι noun (organ)

Catalan

1 entries

melsa noun (organ)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

سپڵ noun (organ)

Central Melanau

1 entries

atai besi noun (organ)

Chichewa

1 entries

kapamba noun (organ)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

脾臟 /脾脏 noun (organ)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

脾臟 /脾脏 noun (organ)

Chuvash

1 entries

сула noun (organ)

Cornish

1 entries

felgh noun (organ)

Czech

1 entries

slezina noun (organ)

Danish

1 entries

milt noun (organ)

Daur

1 entries

delukin noun (organ)

Dhivehi

1 entries

ހުންކޮށި noun (organ)

Dutch

1 entries

milt noun (organ)

Egyptian

1 entries

M22-M22-Sm-m-F51 noun (organ)

Erzya

1 entries

шечей noun (organ)

Esperanto

1 entries

lieno noun (organ)

Estonian

1 entries

põrn noun (organ)

Evenki

2 entries

дэлкин noun (organ)
ӣлэн noun (organ)

Faroese

2 entries

milt noun (organ)
milti noun (organ)

Finnish

1 entries

perna noun (organ)

French

1 entries

rate noun (organ)

Galician

2 entries

bazo noun (organ)
paxarela noun (organ)

Georgian

1 entries

ელენთა noun (organ)

German

1 entries

Milz noun (organ)

Greek

2 entries

σπλήνα noun (organ)
σπλην noun (organ)

Hadza

1 entries

puche noun (organ)

Hanunoo

1 entries

anarip noun (organ)

Hebrew

1 entries

טחול noun (organ)

Hindi

4 entries

तिल्ली noun (organ)
तिहाल noun (organ)
पिलई noun (organ)
प्लीहा noun (organ)

Hungarian

1 entries

lép noun (organ)

Hunsrik

1 entries

Mils noun (organ)

Icelandic

1 entries

milta noun (organ)

Ido

1 entries

spleno noun (organ)

Indonesian

3 entries

kura noun (organ)
lien noun (organ)
limpa noun (organ)

Inuktitut

1 entries

ᒪᔅᓴᒃ noun (organ)

Irish

1 entries

liathán noun (organ)

Italian

2 entries

milza noun (organ)
splene noun (organ)

Japanese

1 entries

脾臓 noun (organ)

Jarai

1 entries

la noun (organ)

Javanese

1 entries

ꦭꦶꦩ꧀ꦥ noun (organ)

Kalmyk

1 entries

делүн noun (organ)

Kapampangan

1 entries

lape noun (organ)

Kazakh

1 entries

көк бауыр noun (organ)

Khmer

2 entries

កណ្ដុក noun (organ)
ផាល noun (organ)

Korean

1 entries

지라 noun (organ)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

көк боор noun (organ)

Lao

1 entries

ມ້າມ noun (organ)

Latin

1 entries

liēn noun (organ)

Latvian

1 entries

liesa noun (organ)

Laz

1 entries

ფანწალა noun (organ)

Lithuanian

1 entries

blužnis noun (organ)

Lower Tanana

1 entries

ch'etala' noun (organ)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Mëlz noun (organ)

Macedonian

1 entries

слезина noun (organ)

Malay

3 entries

kura noun (organ)
limpa noun (organ)
pelih noun (organ)

Malayalam

1 entries

പ്ലീഹ noun (organ)

Maltese

1 entries

milsa noun (organ)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡩᡝᠯᡳᡥᡠᠨ noun (organ)

Manx

1 entries

ahlea noun (organ)

Marathi

1 entries

प्लीहा noun (organ)

Middle English

1 entries

milte noun (organ)

Middle Persian

2 entries

𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭫𐭩 noun (organ)
𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭫𐭰 noun (organ)

Mongolian

1 entries

дэлүү noun (organ)

Mòcheno

1 entries

schmilz noun (organ)

Māori

2 entries

kōateate noun (organ)
mahara noun (organ)

Navajo

1 entries

atélí noun (organ)

Norman

1 entries

rate noun (organ)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

sipil noun (organ)

Northern Yukaghir

1 entries

льукульаайэ noun (organ)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

milt noun (organ)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

milt noun (organ)

Occitan

1 entries

mèlsa noun (organ)

Old Armenian

1 entries

փայծաղն noun (organ)

Old English

1 entries

milte noun (organ)

Ossetian

1 entries

фарсылӕвзаг noun (organ)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

سپرز noun (organ)
طالاق noun (organ)
طحال noun (organ)

Pangasinan

1 entries

pali noun (organ)

Persian

4 entries

اسبل noun (organ)
اسپرز noun (organ)
سپرز noun (organ)
طحال noun (organ)

Piedmontese

1 entries

milsa noun (organ)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Miltz noun (organ)

Polish

1 entries

śledziona noun (organ)

Portuguese

1 entries

baço noun (organ)

Quechua

1 entries

k'ayrapin noun (organ)

Romanian

1 entries

splină noun (organ)

Russian

1 entries

селезёнка noun (organ)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

slezèna noun (organ)
slezìna noun (organ)
слезѐна noun (organ)
слезѝна noun (organ)

Sicilian

1 entries

meusa noun (organ)

Slovak

1 entries

slezina noun (organ)

Slovene

1 entries

vranica noun (organ)

Southern Altai

2 entries

кӧк буур noun (organ)
телӱӱн noun (organ)

Spanish

1 entries

bazo noun (organ)

Sundanese

1 entries

kawaya noun (organ)

Swahili

1 entries

wengu noun (organ)

Swedish

1 entries

mjälte noun (organ)

Tagalog

1 entries

pali noun (organ)

Tajik

2 entries

испурч noun (organ)
сипурз noun (organ)

Tamil

1 entries

மண்ணீரல் noun (organ)

Tarifit

1 entries

inarfeḍ noun (organ)

Tatar

1 entries

талак noun (organ)

Telugu

1 entries

ప్లీహము noun (organ)

Thai

1 entries

ม้าม noun (organ)

Turkish

1 entries

dalak noun (organ)

Turkmen

1 entries

dalak noun (organ)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎉𐎈𐎍 noun (organ)

Ukrainian

1 entries

селезі́нка noun (organ)

Urdu

1 entries

تللی noun (organ)

Uyghur

1 entries

تال noun (organ)

Uzbek

1 entries

taloq noun (organ)

Vietnamese

2 entries

lá lách noun (organ)
lách noun (organ)

Volapük

1 entries

splen noun (organ)

Welsh

1 entries

dueg noun (organ)

West Coast Bajau

1 entries

kura' noun (organ)

Yakut

1 entries

таал noun (organ)

Yiddish

1 entries

מילץ noun (organ)

Sample sentences

27 total sentences available.

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This fellow is up to something. I can feel it in my spleen.

Source: tatoeba (1812153)

We had to remove your spleen.

Source: tatoeba (2953623)

The bookkeeper lost his spleen in a horrible car wreck.

Source: tatoeba (6574136)

I'm hungry for a Sicilian spleen sandwich.

Source: tatoeba (6634215)

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Common questions

What are the closest synonyms for "spleen"?

Closest matches include lien, irascibility, abdomen, acerbity, acid.

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