different between sarcastic vs splenetic

English

Alternative forms

• sarcastick (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s???kæstik/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s???kæstik/

  Rhymes: -æst?k

Adjective

sarcastic (comparative more sarcastic, superlative most sarcastic)

1. Containing sarcasm.

   a sarcastic quip; the teacher's sarcastic tone

2. (of a person) Having the personality trait of expressing sarcasm.
   • 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl

     Her eyes slanted a little... and were sometimes full of fiery determination and sometimes dull and opaque. Her expression was never altogether amiable; was often, indeed, distinctly sullen, or, when she was animated, sarcastic.

Synonyms

• sarky (British)
• snarky

Derived terms

• sarky

Translations

See also

• ironic
• sardonic
• snide

References

• “sarcastic” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "sarcastic" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “sarcastic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

Romanian

Etymology

French sarcastique

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sar?kastik]

Adjective

sarcastic m or n (feminine singular sarcastic?, masculine plural sarcastici, feminine and neuter plural sarcastice)

1. sarcastic

Declension

Synonyms

• caustic

Adverb

sarcastic

1. sarcastically

Related terms

• sarcasm

English

Alternative forms

• splenetick (obsolete)

Etymology

The adjective form of spleen, borrowed from Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen. Anger was traditionally believed to originate from the fluids of the spleen.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /spl??n?t?k/

  Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

splenetic (comparative more splenetic, superlative most splenetic)

1. Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:angry, Thesaurus:irritable
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.