Splenetic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /spləˈnɛtɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Splenetic is an adjective meaning Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
Meaning
Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
More Meanings
- (biology) Related to the spleen.
- (archaic) A person affected with spleen.
Example Sentences
A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.
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.
I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.
Word Forms
- splenetick
- splenetics
Synonyms for splenetic
Depending on context, synonyms include agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ill-natured, prickly, bristly, waspish, disrelish, splenetical.
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