3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am
splenetic? --Pope.
Syn: Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, n.
A person affected with spleen.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
splenetic
adj : 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}, {waspish}]
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