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SPLENETIC
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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:
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:
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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