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Definition: SPLEENISH |
SPLEENISHAdjective1. Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sullenness | Moody; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPLEENISH |
| English words defined with "SPLEENISH": Splenish. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SPLEENISH": Splenish. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SPLEENISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בעל מר" שחור" (melancholic, splenetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eenishsplay злобный (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, ill-natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, venomous, viperous, virulent). (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
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. | |
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