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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to the spleen;
[syn: splenic, splenetic, lienal]

2. very irritable;
- Example: "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
- Example: "he became prickly and spiteful"
- Example: "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
[syn: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, n. A person affected with spleen. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

splenetic adj 1: of or relating to the spleen [syn: splenic, splenetic, lienal] 2: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "splenetic": 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