English

Alternative forms

• splenetick (obsolete)

Adjective

splenetic ‎(comparative more splenetic, superlative most splenetic)

1. Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / ... / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

     In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.

2. (biology) Related to the spleen.
   • 1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879

     I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.

Derived terms

• splenetically adv
• splenetical

Related terms

• lienal
• spleenful
• spleeny
• splenic
• splenitive

Translations

Noun

splenetic ‎(plural splenetics)

1. (archaic) A person affected with spleen.