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SPLEENISH

Definition: SPLEENISH

SPLEENISH

Adjective

1. Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: SPLEENISH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sullenness

Moody; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SPLEENISH

English words defined with "SPLEENISH": Splenish. (references)
Etymologies containing "SPLEENISH": Splenish. (references)

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Modern Translation: SPLEENISH

Language Translations for "SPLEENISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

בעל מר" שחור" (melancholic, splenetic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eenishsplay

   

Russian 

  

злобный (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, ill-natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, venomous, viperous, virulent). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

melankolik (elegiac, melancholic, melancholy, spleenful), karasevdalı (besotted, demented, elegiac, infatuated, melancholic, spleenful), 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, spleenful, 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, spleenful, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SPLEENISH"

Words rhyming with "SPLEENISH" (pronounced 'Spleen"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPLEENISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: plenishes.

Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-l-n-p-s-s"

-2 letters: enisles, ensiles, hipless, hipness, pelisse, penises, pensile, pensils, plenish, seniles, sphenes, spinels, spleens, splines.

-3 letters: enisle, ensile, espies, lenses, lessen, peises, penile, pensil, pishes, plisse, seines, senile, sheens, shiels, shines, shleps, sleeps, slipes, sneesh, snipes, speels, speils, speise, spense, sphene, spiels, spiles, spinel, spines, spleen, spline.

-4 letters: heels, heils, helps, isles, lenes, lenis.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-l-n-p-s-s"
 

+2 letters: replenishes, shapeliness.

 

+3 letters: generalships, listenership, planispheres, plushinesses, replenishers, siphonostele, telephonists.

 

+4 letters: elephantiases, elephantiasis, listenerships, lumpishnesses, nympholepsies, pennywhistles, phalansteries, shapelinesses, siphonosteles, splashinesses.

 

+5 letters: blimpishnesses, nonperishables, phenomenalisms, phenomenalists, philhellenisms, philhellenists, physicalnesses, prehensilities, replenishments, steeplechasing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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