Splenetic - English meaning

adjective

Feeling or showing strong annoyance, displeasure, or hostility; full of anger.

Usage examples:

An angry customer

adjective

Having the feeling people get when something unfair, painful, or bad happens

Usage examples:

An angry mob, i hope you aren’t angry with me., he angrily slammed the door.

adjective

Becoming annoyed or angry very easily

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Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.

Usage examples:

He can be a cantankerous old fossil at times

adjective

Having a difficult and contrary disposition

adjective

Annoyed and tending to argue and complain

Usage examples:

By dinner, we were all tired and cantankerous.

adjective

Bad-tempered or irritable.

Usage examples:

He was a choleric, self-important little man

adjective

Quickly aroused to anger

adjective

Very angry or easily annoyed

adjective

(of handwriting) very small and difficult to decipher.

Usage examples:

His handwriting is crabbed and hideous

verb

Move sideways or obliquely.

Usage examples:

He began crabbing sideways across the roof

verb

Grumble about something petty.

Usage examples:

On picnics, i would crab about sand in my food

adjective

Irritable.

Usage examples:

A rather crabby old man

adjective

Easily annoyed and complaining

Usage examples:

You're very crabby today. what's bothering you?

noun

A mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).

Usage examples:

Place a cross against the preferred choice

verb

Go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.).

Usage examples:

She has crossed the atlantic twice

adjective

Annoyed.

Usage examples:

He seemed to be very cross about something

adjective

Irritable.

Usage examples:

He was tired and crotchety

adjective

Easily annoyed or angered

Usage examples:

After ten hours in the car, we were all getting crotchety.

adjective

Having indigestion or a consequent air of irritable bad temper.

Usage examples:

Four randomised controlled trials have confirmed that h pylori ‘test and treat’ is more cost effect…

noun

A person who suffers from indigestion or bad temper.

adjective

Having problems with digesting food

adjective

Unfriendly or in a bad mood

Usage examples:

He was a surly and ill-humoured man., although their discussions were at times intense, they were n…

adjective

Easily annoyed

Usage examples:

An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

Usage examples:

An irascible and difficult man

adjective

Quickly aroused to anger

adjective

(of a person) easily made angry

Usage examples:

A cranky, irascible artist

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed.

Usage examples:

She was tired and irritable

adjective

Having or showing an irritable disposition.

Usage examples:

A thin peevish voice

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) childishly bad-tempered and petulant.

Usage examples:

He comes across in his journal entries as spoiled and pettish

adjective

(of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

He was moody and petulant

adjective

Easily angered or annoyed, esp. in a rude way

Usage examples:

He plays the part of a petulant young man in the film.

adjective

(of a dog) irritable and inclined to bite.

Usage examples:

She was often snappish with the children

adjective

Easily annoyed and often speaking in an angry way

Usage examples:

He's very snappish when he arrives at work in the morning.

adjective

Easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

His testy, disapproving father

adjective

Lacking patience and feeling upset

Usage examples:

My wife gets testy if we don’t have dessert.

adjective

Irritable and bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

She had always been tetchy and impatient with him

adjective

Easily made angry, unhappy, or upset

Usage examples:

Be careful what you say to anna - she's been a little tetchy lately.

adjective

Readily expressing anger or irritation.

Usage examples:

He had a waspish tongue

adjective

Likely to make sharp, slightly cruel remarks; having a slightly angry and unpleasant manner

Usage examples:

She had a waspish tongue which could hurt.

adjective

Full of or characterized by intense anger.

Usage examples:

Natural calamities seemed to be the work of a wrathful deity

adjective

Very angry, or often feeling strong anger

Usage examples:

It is not in mr freeman's nature to be wrathful or jealous., his hero-worship turns into wrathful j…