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spleen

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of spleen

1 an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something

  • vented her spleen and felt much better for having done so
Synonyms of spleen

anger, angriness, birse [chiefly Scottish], choler, furor, fury, indignation, irateness, ire, lividity, lividness, mad, madness, mood [archaic], outrage, rage, wrath, wrathfulness
Words Related to spleen

aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation

acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, biliousness, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, empoisonment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor

envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment

malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol

belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, crankiness, disputatiousness, hot-headedness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, orneriness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness

blowup, flare, flare-up, outburst

chafe, dander, dudgeon, huff, pet, rise, ruffle, temper

air rage, road rage

delirium, heat, passion, warmth
Phrases Synonymous with spleen

slow burn
Near Antonyms of spleen

calmness, forbearance, patience
Antonyms of spleen

delight, pleasure

2 the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm

  • the billʼs failure to pass in the legislature was due to nothing more than partisan spleen
Synonyms of spleen

cattiness, despite, hatefulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, venom, viciousness
Words Related to spleen

abusiveness, cruelty

abhorrence, abomination, execration, hate, hatred, loathing

animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, grudge, hostility, ill will, jaundice, mean-spiritedness, rancor, resentment

despicableness, invidiousness

vengefulness, vindictiveness

aversion, disgust, distaste, horror, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

bitchery, bitchiness, contempt, disdain

jealousy, pique, resentment, scorn

bile, rancor, virulence, vitriol
Near Antonyms of spleen

devotion, love, passion

amiability, amicability, amity, civility, cordiality, friendliness, hospitality

adoration, ardor, infatuation, veneration, worship

affection, charity, kindliness, kindness

comity, empathy, friendship, goodwill, sympathy, understanding

Synonym Discussion of spleen

malice, malevolence, ill will, spite, malignity, spleen, grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer.
    • felt no malice toward their former enemies
malevolence suggests a bitter persistent hatred that is likely to be expressed in malicious conduct.
    • a look of dark malevolence
ill will implies a feeling of antipathy of limited duration.
    • ill will provoked by a careless remark
spite implies petty feelings of envy and resentment that are often expressed in small harassments.
    • petty insults inspired by spite
malignity implies deep passion and relentlessness.
    • a life consumed by motiveless malignity
spleen suggests the wrathful release of latent spite or persistent malice.
    • venting his spleen against politicians
grudge implies a harbored feeling of resentment or ill will that seeks satisfaction.
    • never one to harbor a grudge

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