Thesaurus / splenetic
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synonyms for splenetic
- annoyed
- bitter
- enraged
- exasperated
- furious
- heated
- impassioned
- indignant
- irate
- irritable
- irritated
- offended
- outraged
- resentful
- sullen
- uptight
- affronted
- antagonized
- chafed
- choleric
- convulsed
- cross
- displeased
- exacerbated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- galled
- hateful
- hot
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- incensed
- inflamed
- infuriated
- irascible
- ireful
- maddened
- nettled
- piqued
- pissed
- pissed off
- provoked
- put out
- raging
- riled
- sore
- storming
- sulky
- vexed
- wrathful
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- annoyed
- caviling
- faultfinding
- peeved
- short
- vexed
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- fractious
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- out of humor
- peevish
- pettish
- petulant
- put out
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- snappy
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- tetchy
- touchy
- waspish
- brusque
- cranky
- gruff
- irascible
- prickly
- sarcastic
- abrupt
- bluff
- blunt
- brief
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- curt
- dour
- harsh
- ill-humored
- peevish
- saturnine
- scornful
- short
- short-tempered
- snappish
- snarling
- snippety
- snippy
- surly
- testy
- touchy
- vinegary
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- complaining
- contrary
- crabby
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- edgy
- faultfinding
- fractious
- huffy
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappish
- testy
- touchy
- uneasy
- worried
- wreck
- bleak
- cruel
- ghastly
- gloomy
- glum
- grisly
- gruesome
- harsh
- horrid
- ominous
- shocking
- somber
- sour
- stern
- terrible
- austere
- barbarous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- glowering
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hideous
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- sinister
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
- cross
- downcast
- melancholy
- sulky
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- cranky
- dour
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- melancholy
- mournful
- sad
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- ugly
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- dolorous
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- moody
- moping
- perverse
- perversive
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- sulky
- taciturn
- troubled
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
- choleric
- cranky
- cross
- excitable
- fiery
- hot-tempered
- impatient
- impulsive
- inflammable
- irascible
- irritable
- passionate
- peppery
- petulant
- quarrelsome
- ratty
- sensitive
- short-tempered
- shrewish
- temperamental
- testy
- waspish
- angry
- cantankerous
- captious
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- curt
- edgy
- irascible
- irritable
- peevish
- petulant
- short
- testy
- touchy
- barbed
- catty
- cruel
- hateful
- malicious
- ornery
- snide
- venomous
- vicious
- vindictive
- accidentally on purpose
- angry
- cussed
- despiteful
- dirty
- evil
- ill-disposed
- ill-natured
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- rancorous
- spleenful
- waspish
- wicked
- annoyed
- cantankerous
- cranky
- edgy
- exasperated
- grumpy
- impatient
- quarrelsome
- sullen
- uptight
- bad-tempered
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- fretful
- grouchy
- irascible
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- peppery
- petulant
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappy
- thin-skinned
- waspish
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- edgy
- exasperated
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- impatient
- irascible
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- peppery
- petulant
- quarrelsome
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappy
- sullen
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- waspish
- delicate
- dicey
- hypersensitive
- jumpy
- precarious
- risky
- sensitive
- testy
- ticklish
- tricky
- uptight
- volatile
- bad-tempered
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- irascible
- irritable
- mean
- ornery
- oversensitive
- peevish
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- surly
- temperamental
- thin-skinned
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- wired up
- wound-up
- acrimonious
- bitter
- hateful
- malicious
- rancorous
- scathing
- vicious
- vitriolic
- antagonistic
- cutting
- malevolent
- resentful
- sharp
- spiteful
- stabbing
- unfriendly
- venomous
- vindictive
- bright
- cheerful
- comforting
- encouraging
- gentle
- good
- happy
- joyful
- kind
- light
- nice
- pleasant
- pleasing
- pretty
- sunny
- wonderful
- hopeful
- friendly
- gentle
- good
- kind
- lovable
- nice
- pleasant
- sympathetic
- thoughtful
- affectionate
- forgiving
- helpful
- loving
- pleasing
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How to use splenetic in a sentence
But Jack was at that day a reckless fellow, and he lived to be passionately sorry for his splenetic madness.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANBut here I am pouring out this one-sided splenetic humor upon you without having the least intended it when I sat down.
THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES, VOL. 1WILLIAM JAMESWhat a sickly womanhood grows up in a nervous, feeble, neuralgic, splenetic female body!
AIMS AND AIDS FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMENGEORGE SUMNER WEAVERAppeals to justice were represented as the splenetic effusions of a man never to be satisfied.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BARON TRENCKBARON TRENCKAnd the brothers laughed aloud in the splenetic bitterness of their three souls.
THE RAINBOW BOOK TALES OF FUN & FANCYMABEL HENRIETTE SPIELMANNHis splenetic moods and his violent dislikes arose not from p. 34a want of sensibility, but from an excess of sensibility.
THE VAGABOND IN LITERATUREARTHUR RICKETTI can't be merry so near any splenetic talk; so I made that long line, and now all's well again.
THE JOURNAL TO STELLAJONATHAN SWIFTHe seems to be not far from thinking that only our splenetic and melancholy race could have given birth to such literary monsters.
LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENSFRANK MARZIALSAll this splenetic declamation involves charges of coxcombry, luxury, and cowardice.
THE HISTORY OF CHIVALRY, VOLUME II (OF 2)CHARLES MILLSTodd quotes the note of Bishop Hurd,—“Happy men love witnesses of their joy: the splenetic love solitude.”
MINOR POEMS BY MILTONJOHN MILTONWORDS RELATED TO SPLENETIC
- affronted
- annoyed
- antagonized
- bitter
- chafed
- choleric
- convulsed
- cross
- displeased
- enraged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- furious
- galled
- hateful
- heated
- hot
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- impassioned
- incensed
- indignant
- inflamed
- infuriated
- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- maddened
- nettled
- offended
- outraged
- piqued
- provoked
- raging
- resentful
- riled
- sore
- splenetic
- storming
- sulky
- sullen
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- uptight
- vexed
- wrathful
- affronted
- annoyed
- antagonized
- bitter
- chafed
- choleric
- convulsed
- cross
- displeased
- enraged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- furious
- galled
- hateful
- heated
- hot
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- impassioned
- incensed
- indignant
- inflamed
- infuriated
- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- maddened
- nettled
- offended
- outraged
- piqued
- pissed
- pissed off
- provoked
- put out
- raging
- resentful
- riled
- sore
- splenetic
- storming
- sulky
- sullen
- uptight
- vexed
- wrathful
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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