easily angered (irritable, choleric, bilious). irritable; easily angered irritable; bad-tempered; spiteful. bad-tempered; spiteful. \\"a splenetic rant\\". ***synonyms: bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-humoured, angry, wrathful, cross, peevish, petulant, pettish, irritable, irascible, cantankerous, choleric, dyspeptic, testy, tetchy, snappish, waspish, crotchety, crabby, crabbed, querulous, resentful, rancorous, bilious, sour, bitter, acid, liverish; spiteful, malicious, ill-natured, hostile, acrimonious, malevolent, malignant, malign; informalbitchy; rareatrabilious, à¦à¦¿à¦à§à¦à¦¿à¦à§ grouchy, techy, testy, irritable, peevish, splenetic à¦¬à¦¿à¦à¦°à§à¦· discontent, sad, glum, morose, splenetic à¦à¦¿à¦à¦à¦¿à¦à§ tetchy, testy, crabbed, crusty, currish, splenetic à¦¬à¦¦à¦à§à¦à¦¾à¦à¦¿ short tempered, cranky, cantankerous, crabbed, splenetic, fratchy à¦ªà§à¦²à§à¦¹à¦¾-à¦à¦à¦¿à¦¤ splenetic. very irritable. Ever since the car accident, Frank has been unable to walk without a cane, and so he has become splenetic and unpleasant to be around. Definition of Splenetic short-tempered Examples of Splenetic in a sentence Because my uncle has a splenetic personality, it does not take a great deal to get on his bad side. Matt was splenetic after his wife left him for another man. When the workers learned their paychecks would be delayed, they displayed their splenetic natures by breaking the accountant\\'s door. Unfortunately, Ginger\\'s headache put her in a bad mood and caused her to be splenetic with her family. The splenetic chef threw a knife at the food critic who wrote a bad review of his signature dish.