Splenetic

Definition: Splenetic

Splenetic

Adjective

1. Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues".

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Date "splenetic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Synonyms: Splenetic

Dejection

Sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful; dolesome, doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic; lackadaisical.

Sullenness

Moody; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered.

Crosswords: Splenetic

Expression using "splenetic": bristly prickly snappish splenetic waspish. Additional references.

Albanian

njeri që ka sëmundje i shpretkës, i shpretkës (splenic). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar), ‏سوداوي (melancholy), ‏عبوس (fretful, frown, infelicitous, sad, scowl, sternum). (various references)

Bulgarian 

язвителен човек, язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), далачен (splenic). (various references)

Czech

nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, snappy, sour, sullen, surly). (various references)

French

morose, atrabilaire. (various references)

German

verdrießlich (boring, glum, irksome, morose, morosely, peevish, peevishly, sour, sourly, stodgy, sullen, surlily, tiresome). (various references)

Greek 

κακοδιάθετοσ (morose), σπληνικόσ (splenic), δύστροποσ (bloody minded, cantankerous, captious, crabbed, cranky, cross, fretful, grouch, illtempered, morose, peevish, pettish, recalcitrant, shrewish, splenish, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vixenish, waspish, wayward). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"יר חמ�", זעפן (hot tempered, irascible, irritable), בעל מר�" שחור�" (melancholic, spleenish), טחולי, רתחן (bad tempered, fiery, hot tempered, irascible), � וח לכעוס (hot tempered, irascible, quarrelsome, quicktempered). (various references)

Hungarian

rosszkedvû ember, rosszkedvû (bad tempered, be off his rocker, bloody minded, disgruntled, glum, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, in a bad temper, liverish, Moody, morose), lép- (splenic). (various references)

Italian

splenico (splenic). (various references)

Manx

splennagh (whimsical), ahleagh (splenic). (various references)

Pig Latin

eneticsplay

Portuguese

neurastênico (choleric, depressed, neurasthenic, spleenful), mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), irritadiço (brittle, cantankerous, choleric, peevish, pettish, prickly, short-tempered, sore, vinegary), hipocondríaco (atrabilious, choleric, melancholic, spleenful, vapourish), esplenético (spleenful), colérico (angry, atrabilious, choleraic, furious, ireful, raging, wrathful), atrabiliário (atrabilious). (various references)

Romanian

splenic (splenic), trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), referitor la splinã, persoanã care suferã de splinã, melancolic (doleful, gloomily, gloomy, languorously, melancholically, melancholy, pensive, pensively, sad, somber, sombre, wistful). (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, spleenful, testy, touchy), ипохондрик (hypochondriac, hypocondriac). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

malhumorado (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, cross, disagreeable, disgruntled, fractious, glum, grouchy, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, low-spirited, moody, morose, mumpish, peevish, pettish, petulant, sulky, sullen, surly), esplénico (splenic), enojadizo (fractious, huffy, irritable, peevish, short tempered, waspish). (various references)

Swedish

irritabel (irritable). (various references)

Thai

อารม�"์เสีย (arse-on, arsey, bad-tempered, grumpily, grumpiness, grumpy, huff). (various references)

Turkish

meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy), 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, spleenish, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), dalak hastası kimse, dalak (spleen, splenic), dalağından rahatsız kimse, dalağa ait, aşırı titiz tip (old maid), aşırı titiz (prim and proper, prissy, punctilious, queasy). (various references)

Ukrainian

іпохондрик (atrabilarian, gloom, hypochondriac, valetudinarian), людина з хворою селезінкою. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người hay bu�"n bực (splenetical). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "splenetic": splenetically, splenetics. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Splenetic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asplenii, sulentic. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: centiles, pectines, penlites, plenties.

-2 letters: centile, clients, eclipse, entices, epistle, incepts, inspect, lectins, license, licente, lisente, pectens, pectins, pelites, pencels, pencils, penlite, pensile, pintles, plenist, sectile, selenic, setline, silence, splenic, stencil, tensile.

-3 letters: clepes, client, clines, elects, elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, entice, incept, incest, inlets, insect, instep, lectin, lentic, listee, listen, nestle.

+1 letter: pestilence, plasticene, princelets, splenetics.

+2 letters: percentiles, pestilences, petulancies, plasticenes, prelections, presciently, princeliest, telescoping.

+3 letters: displacement, encephalitis, explicitness, mantelpieces, misplacement, neuroleptics, pitchblendes, poeticalness, postelection, preelections, preselecting, preselection, stepchildren, technophiles.

+4 letters: conceptualise, displacements, encyclopedist, inoperculates, insusceptible, letterspacing, misplacements, predilections, preselections, scleroprotein, splenectomies, splenectomize, splenetically, typicalnesses, unsusceptible.

+5 letters: antiepileptics, compatibleness, conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualizes, contemplatives, convertiplanes, encephalitides, encyclopedists, exceptionalism, explicitnesses, implicitnesses, incompleteness, letterspacings, nonspeculative, nucleoproteins, pinealectomies, poeticalnesses, scleroproteins, splenectomized, splenectomizes, steeplechasing, teleprocessing, unpredictables.