'Splenetic' definitions:
Definition of 'splenetic'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Splenetic'
From: GCIDE
- Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, n. A person affected with spleen. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Splenetic'
From: GCIDE
- Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, a. [L. spleneticus: cf. F. spl['e]n['e]tique. See Spleen.] Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'splenetic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrimonious,
- adrenal,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- blase,
- burning,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- caustic,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- disagreeable,
- dispirited,
- eccrine,
- embittered,
- endocrine,
- excitable,
- exocrine,
- fed-up,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- glandular,
- glandulous,
- gonadal,
- good and tired,
- holocrine,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- humoral,
- irascible,
- irked,
- irritable,
- jaded,
- life-weary,
- luteal,
- mean,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- merocrine,
- ornery,
- ovarian,
- pancreatic,
- perverse,
- prostatic,
- rancorous,
- rankled,
- resentful,
- resenting,
- satiated,
- sick,
- sick of,
- snappish,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- stewing,
- testy,
- thymic,
- thyroidal,
- tired,
- tired of,
- tired of living,
- tired to death,
- ugly,
- virulent,
- waspish,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- world-weary