SPLEENFUL

Definition: SPLEENFUL

SPLEENFUL

Adjective

1. Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPLEENFUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заядлив (argumentative, bellicose, captious, carping, combative, contradictious, contradictory, currish, doggish, mordant, nagging, peevish, provoking, troublesome, vixenish), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious, virulent). (various references)

Czech

zasmušilý (dull, gloomy, grave, subdued, sullen). (various references)

Hungarian

nyomott (depressed, dim-witted, dispirited, muggy, to feel slack). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

taciturno (moody, morose, mumpish, reticent, silent, sullen, taciturn, uncommunicative), neurastênico (choleric, depressed, neurasthenic, splenetic), hipocondríaco (atrabilious, choleric, melancholic, splenetic, vapourish), esplenético (splenetic). (various references)

Russian 

раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, splenetic, testy, touchy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrzovoljan (cantankerous, cranky, glum, grouchy, ill-humored, petulant, saturnine, shirty, splenetic, sulky, testy). (various references)

Spanish

irritado (annoyed, irked, irritated, testy). (various references)

Turkish

melankolik (elegiac, melancholic, melancholy, spleenish), karasevdalı (besotted, demented, elegiac, infatuated, melancholic, spleenish), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukrainian

злобний (nasty, nocuous, rancorous, sardonian, sardonic, sardonical, spiteful, wicked), дратівливий (bilious, capernoited, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, exasperating, fretful, grumpy, hoity toity, impatient, irascible, irritable, petulant, short tempered, tetchy, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

u uất (spleenish, spleeny), u bu�"n (spleenish, spleeny), chán nản (chop, crest-fallen, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, despondingly, dispiritedly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, hatchet, heartsick, heavy, long, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenish, spleeny), bu�"n bực hằn học; bực tức (spleenish, spleeny). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: flense, spleen, sullen, unsell.

-4 letters: ensue, feels, fells, flees, flues, fuels, fulls, fusee, fusel, lenes, lense, lunes, neeps, nulls, peels, peens, peles, pelfs, penes, pules, pulls, pulse, selle, sleep, snell, speel, spell.

-5 letters: eels, ells, else, feel, fees, fell, fens, feus, flee, flue, flus, fuel, full, funs, fuse, lees, lens, lues, lune, neep.

+2 letters: helpfulness.

+4 letters: helpfulnesses, playfulnesses, plentifulness, suspensefully.