splenetic

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
2. Related to the spleen.

Noun

A person affected with spleen.

Sinonieme

splenic

lienal

waspish

peevish

testy

morose

bristly

irritable

prickly

fretful

cross

disquietingly

grouching

ill-humoured

irascible

malignant

mordant

pettish

pungent

recalcitrant

shrewish

stroppy

sullen

surly

tart

untoward

vindictive

viperish

vixenish

wayward

dispiteous

illtempered

splenish

acid

bileful

acrid

bad-tempered

barbed

biting

bloody-minded

cantankerous

captious

crabbed

cranky

Vertalings

huysuz

esplénico

malhumorado

aksi

titiz

verdrießlich

âpre

splénique

unwirsch

Milz-

acariâtre

αψίθυμος

acerbe

âcre

irascible

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/spləˈnɛtɪk/

Etimologie (Engels)

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.