splenetic
1
9.9
- adjective
- /spləˈnɛtɪk/
- Archaic
:
irritable
- Now that's just splenetic.
Examples
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Wallace never had a pleasant word for her or asked her to go out with him, and Mr. Crawford was splenetic and hard to please.
Fiction book (2000) -
All in all, an entertaining and supple being he had rather liked finding on his picnic table, staring balefully at the splenetic squirrels.
Fiction book (2001) -
In a moment, our splenetic client came on the line and began screaming at me.
Fiction book (1992) -
Quinn, a splenetic Irishman, a politician, and Chief of Homicide, stands at the top of the steps leading to the front door.
Fiction book (1995) -
The splenetic Walter Barrett, millionaire industrialist, is fidgeting in his chair as Gordon enters.
Fiction book (1992) -
It was a splenetic rant (for which I apologized), not a call to genocide.
Blog text (8) -
The "heroism" of this display of splenetic derangement was memorialized in Michael Moore's propaganda film, Fahrenheit 911, which was adopted later by the DNC as an official campaign device.
Blog text (1) -
The quarrel of 1961 between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis broke out when the latter's splenetic Richmond Lecture in response to Snow's opinions concerning the "two cultures" of literature and science was published in the Spectator shortly after I left.
Academic text (1996) -
Our splenetic boss exploded with anger when he saw the mistakes in the report.
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She developed a splenetic attitude after being treated poorly by her colleagues.
Synonyms
24
7.2
A person who is unfriendly and often angry in a rough or threatening way
19
8.2
Acting easily annoyed and impatient about small things
13
5.7
Quick to get angry or upset by small things
9
8.6
Gets angry easily and often argues with people
7
8.6
About the organ under the left ribs that helps the body fight infection
6
5.0
Quietly angry and not wanting to talk to others
5
8.6
Quick to become angry, often at small things
4
4.2
Quick to get angry or easily annoyed
4
5.7
Easily annoyed and quick to get angry
1
6.0
To become angry quickly and easily
1
9.6
Quick to become angry and often bad-tempered
1
9.1
Being easily annoyed and quick to feel offended
1
8.1
Easily annoyed and quick to speak sharply
1
9.7
Feeling annoyed and in a bad mood
1
9.8
Easily annoyed and likely to argue or be unhelpful
1
9.9
Quick to become angry or take offense
Quick to speak in a rude or angry way that hurts others
Quick to get annoyed and show irritation
Being bad-tempered and easily offended
Relating to the spleen or things that affect it
Antonyms
How Irritable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word splenetic comes from the old root splen-, which refers to the body part spleen because people long ago thought the spleen caused mood changes and could make someone 'bad-tempered'. So splenetic means 'easily angered' or bad-tempered.