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Splenetic vs Passionate - What's the difference?

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Splenetic is a related term of passionate.


As adjectives the difference between splenetic and passionate

is that splenetic is bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry while passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.

As nouns the difference between splenetic and passionate

is that splenetic is (archaic) a person affected with spleen while passionate is a passionate individual.

As a verb passionate is

(obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

splenetic

English

Alternative forms

* splenetick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry
  • * 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
    • A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / ... / More peevish, cross, and splenetick , / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
  • * 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
    • In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.
  • (biology) relating 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 * splenetical

    Related terms

    * lienal * spleenful * spleeny * splenic * splenitive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A person affected with spleen.

    • passionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
  • Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
  • * Prior
    • Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
  • (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
  • * 1596 , , II. i. 544:
    • She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
  • * 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
    • Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

    Synonyms

    * (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.

    Related terms

    * passion * passive * passivity * patience * patient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passionate individual.

    • Verb

    (passionat)
  • (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  • (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
  • * 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
    • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

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