Splenetic

/spləˈnɛtɪk/

Synonyms for "splenetic" (111 found)

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Adjective(3 words)

acerb acerbate acerbic acid acidic acidulent acidulous acrimonious adrenal angry bearish bitchy bitter blase burning cankered cantankerous caustic choleric

Adjective(1 words)

angry

Strong matches (33)

churlish crabbed cranky crosscross grainedcross-grained crusty cussed disagreeable dispirited eccrine embittered endocrine excitable exocrinefed upfed-up feisty fractious fretful

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glandular glandulous gonadalgood and tiredharsh hasty holocrine huffish huffy humoral irascible irked

Adjective(1 words)

irascible

Related words (55)

irritable jaded jaundiced life-weary luteal mean melancholic melancholy merocrine morose ornery ovarian pancreatic perverse petulant prostatic querulous quick-tempered rancorous rankled

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resentful resenting satiated sicksick ofsnappish sore spiteful spleeny stewing sullen testy thymic thyroidal tiredtired oftired of livingtired to deathtouchy ugly venomous virulent waspish wearied weariful wearyweary unto deathworld wearyworld-weary

Adjective(6 words)

lienal peevish pricklysplenic relatedsurly waspish

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More general

4 entries

anatomical descriptoremotional stateorgan related termtemperament

More specific

4 entries

cranky peevish splenic splenomegaly

Collocations

5 entries

splenetic demeanorsplenetic dispositionsplenetic humorsplenetic moodsplenetic temperament

Inflections

2 entries

more spleneticmost splenetic

Derivations

3 entries

splenetically spleneticism spleneticness

similar

1 entries

ill-natured

Sample sentences

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His splenetic father threatened to spank him if he didn't behave himself.

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A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.

Source: wiktionary

Horace seems to have purg'd himself from those Splenetick Reflections in those Odes and Epodes, before he undertook the Noble Work of Satires; which were properly so call'd.

Source: wiktionary

[…] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]

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