splenetic
Syllables: sple·net·icUS/spləˈnɛtɪk/
splenetic adjective: bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
Adjective
splenetic (comparative more splenetic, superlative most splenetic)
- Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...
- Horace seems to have purg'd himself from those Splenetick Reflections in those Odes and Epodes, before he undertook the Noble Work of Satires; which were properly so call'd.1692, John Dryden, “A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire,”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis
- Synonyms:
- agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt
- Related to the spleen.
- I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
Noun
splenetic (plural splenetics)
- A person affected with spleen.
splenetic meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
splenetic in Tamil
- சிடுசிடுப்பான, கடுகடுப்பான, எரிச்சலடையும், வன்மம் கொண்ட, மண்ணீரல் தொடர்பான, மண்ணீரலிய
splenetic in Bengali
- বিরক্ত, খিটখিটে
splenetic in Malayalam
- angry, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
- മുൻകോപമുള്ള, ദേഷ്യമുള്ള, ക്ഷിപ്രകോപം വരുന്ന, വേഗം കോപം വരുന്ന, വെറിപിടിച്ച, കോപിയായ
Synonyms of splenetic
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Forms of splenetic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more splenetic |
| superlative | most splenetic |
| alternative form (obsolete) | splenetick |
| Noun | |
| plural | splenetics |
Origin of splenetic
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.
Words formed from splenetic
Words that rhyme with splenetic
- sympathetic
- hermetic
- kinetic
- athletic
- genetic
- magnetic
- energetic
- pathetic
- syndetic
- aesthetic
- diabetic
- diaeretic
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- frenetic
- mimetic
- peripatetic
- planetic
- poetic
- tonetic
- abietic
- anesthetic
- anoetic
- anuretic
- apathetic
- ascetic
- auxetic
- cybernetic
- dietetic
- epithetic
- Helvetic
- parasympathetic
- parenthetic
- phyletic
- Sidetic
- synaeretic
- synizetic
- tabetic
- threnetic
- alexipyretic
- algetic
- alphabetic
- alphametic
- amuletic
- analgetic
- anchoretic
- anoretic
- aphetic
- aporetic
- archegetic
- asyndetic
- auletic
- autonoetic
- balletic
- Baphometic
- cardioparasympathetic
- cardiosympathetic
- cometic
- conspiracy-theoretic
- cynegetic
- diagenetic
- diakinetic
Questions about splenetic
- What does splenetic mean?
- Splenetic means bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- What is splenetic in Tamil?
- Splenetic in Tamil is சிடுசிடுப்பான, கடுகடுப்பான, எரிச்சலடையும். See Splenetic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is splenetic?
- Splenetic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce splenetic?
- Splenetic is pronounced /spləˈnɛtɪk/ (US).
Words near splenetic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: splenetic (page history and authors); splenetic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); splenetic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); splenetic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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