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SPLENETIC

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very irritable

Example:

witty and waspish about his colleagues

Synonyms:

bristly; prickly; splenetic; waspish

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Derivation:

spleen (a feeling of resentful anger)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the spleen

Synonyms:

lienal; splenetic; splenic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

spleen (a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses)

Derivation:

spleen (a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses)

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