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   splenetic

   /splɪˈnɛtɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. bad-tempered; spiteful: "a splenetic rant"
   • 2. archaic term for splenic

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun denoting a person with a diseased spleen): from late Latin spleneticus, from Greek splēn (see spleen).

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishSPLENETIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Splenetic means easily becoming angry or annoyed, or expressing anger. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples, related words and translations.

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     SPLENETIC meaning: 1. used to describe a person who easily...

   • Znaczenie Splenetic, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     splenetic definicja: 1. used to describe a person who easily...

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     splenetic translate: colérico, de cólera. Learn more in the...

   • What is The Pronunciation of Splenetic

     Pronunciation of splenetic. How to say splenetic in English...

   • Cambridge English Dictionary에서의 의미

     splenetic 의미, 정의, splenetic의 정의: 1. used to describe a...

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   Splenetic means marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite, or given to melancholy. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and history of this archaic word from the Latin splen, meaning spleen.

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   What a sickly womanhood grows up in a nervous, feeble, neuralgic, splenetic female body! Appeals to justice were represented as the splenetic effusions of a man never to be satisfied. And the brothers laughed aloud in the splenetic bitterness of their three souls. Splenetic definition: of the spleen; splenic..

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionarySPLENETIC | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   Splenetic means easily becoming angry or annoyed, or expressing anger. Learn how to use this formal adjective in sentences, and see its synonyms and translations in different languages.

6. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › spleneticsplenetic adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and...

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   Definition of splenetic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishSPLENETIC definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Splenetic means easily becoming very angry about things. It can also mean of or relating to the spleen, or full of melancholy. See synonyms, examples, and word origin.

8. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › spleneticSplenetic - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Splenetic was originally used to describe anything having to do with the spleen, the blood-filtering organ in human bodies. Western medicine once attributed both physical health and personality to four "bodily humours," one of which was black bile, thought to be produced by the spleen.