'Spleen' definitions:
Definition of 'spleen'
(from WordNet)
noun
A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses [syn: spleen, lien]
noun
Definition of 'Spleen'
From: GCIDE
- Spleen \Spleen\, v. t. To dislke. [Obs.] --Bp. Hacket. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spleen'
From: GCIDE
- Spleen \Spleen\, n. [L. splen, Gr. ???? the milt or spleen, affection of the spleen; cf. L. lien, plihan, pl[imac]han.]
- 1. (Anat.) A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. [1913 Webster]
- In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A fit of anger; choler. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. [Obs. or R.] [1913 Webster]
- A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections. [1913 Webster]
- Bodies changed to various forms by spleen. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spleen'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abdomen,
- acerbity,
- acid,
- acidity,
- acidulousness,
- acrimony,
- anger,
- angst,
- anguish,
- animosity,
- anus,
- anxiety,
- appendix,
- asperity,
- bad humor,
- bad temper,
- bile,
- biliousness,
- bitter resentment,
- bitterness,
- bitterness of spirit,
- blind gut,
- boredness,
- boredom,
- bowels,
- brain,
- causticity,
- cecum,
- cheerlessness,
- choler,
- colon,
- corrosiveness,
- despite,
- despitefulness,
- discomfort,
- discomposure,
- discontent,
- dislike,
- dispiritedness,
- displeasure,
- disquiet,
- dissatisfaction,
- dread,
- dullness,
- duodenum,
- emptiness,
- endocardium,
- ennui,
- entrails,
- existential woe,
- fed-upness,
- flatness,
- foregut,
- gall,
- giblets,
- gizzard,
- gnashing of teeth,
- grimness,
- grudge,
- guts,
- hard feelings,
- heart,
- heartburning,
- hindgut,
- ill,
- ill humor,
- ill nature,
- ill temper,
- innards,
- inner mechanism,
- inquietude,
- insides,
- internals,
- intestine,
- inwards,
- jadedness,
- jejunum,
- joylessness,
- kidney,
- kishkes,
- lack of pleasure,
- large intestine,
- life-weariness,
- liver,
- liver and lights,
- lung,
- malaise,
- melancholy,
- midgut,
- nausea,
- nongratification,
- nonsatisfaction,
- painfulness,
- perineum,
- pump,
- pylorus,
- rancor,
- rankling,
- rectum,
- satiation,
- satiety,
- savorlessness,
- slow burn,
- small intestine,
- soreness,
- sourness,
- staleness,
- stomach,
- taedium vitae,
- tastelessness,
- tediousness,
- tedium,
- ticker,
- tiredness,
- tripes,
- uncomfortableness,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unhappiness,
- unpleasure,
- unsatisfaction,
- vermiform appendix,
- vexation of spirit,
- virulence,
- viscera,
- vitals,
- wearifulness,
- weariness,
- works,
- world-weariness,
- wrath