splenetic
Meanings
Plural: splenetics
Adjective
- of or relating to the spleen
Adjective Satellite
- very irritable
Adj
- Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- Related to the spleen.
Noun
- A person affected with spleen.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective form of spleen, borrowed from Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen. Anger was traditionally believed to originate from the fluids of the spleen.
Synonyms
angry, annoyed, apoplectic, atrabilious, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, bilious, bitchy, blood-boiling, boiling mad, brainish, bristly, cantankerous, carnaptious, cheesed off, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, enraged, fantoddish, fiery, fit to be tied, fractious, fretful, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, hissy, hopping mad, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, incensed, infuriated, irascible, irate, ired, ireful, irritable, irritated, lienal, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, ornery (chiefly US)}, out of sorts, p'd off, pathetic, peevish, pettish, petulant, pissed, pissed off, pissy, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, raging, raspy, ratty, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, sore, spitting chips, splenetic, splenic, steaming, stressy, surly, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, up on one's ear, vexed, waspish, waxy, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped
Scrabble Score: 13
splenetic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordsplenetic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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