splendor, n. 1. magnificence, impressiveness, imposingness, grandiosity; gorgeousness, Jocular. gorgeosity, exquisiteness, superbness, splendidness, Inf splendiferousness; show, dash, display, parade, spectacle; pomp, grandeur, pageant, ceremony, state; elegance, beauty, stateliness, handsomeness, majesty; luxury, luxuriousness, sumptuousness, lavishness, richness; All Inf. poshness, plushness, swankness, ritziness.
2. glory, distinction, eminence, renown, prestige, illustriousness; repute, reputation, celebrity, report, mark, fame, name; esteem, honor, respect, credit; nobleness, nobility, loftiness, resplendence, blaze of glory; importance, consequence, significance, moment, gravity, weight.
3. preeminence, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, paramountcy; excellence, greatness, grandness, exaltation, transcendence; worth, value, merit; wonder, marvel.
4. brightness, brilliance, radiance, irradiance; luster, sheen, glitter, gleam, gloss, shimmer, shine; dazzle, refulgence, light, fire, blaze; luminosity, luminousness, effulgence, nitency, lambency.
splenetic, adj. 1. irritable, peevish, petulant, choleric, splenetical; cantankerous, irascible, iracund, surly, crabbed, crabby; unfriendly, ill-natured, brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish, snappish, snarling; cross, feisty, huffy, cranky; bilious, testy, touchy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, quicktempered, short-tempered; argumentative, quarrelsome, fractious, contentious, disagreeable, Inf. ornery, Inf. bitchy, Inf. ugly, Dial, evil; uncivil, sharp, abrupt, curt, short, terse, blunt, rough, rude.
2. spiteful, revengeful, vindictive, vengeful; malicious, maleficient, malevolent, rancorous; acrimonious, caustic, virulent, mordant, trenchant, venomous, envenomed. See - spiteful.
splice, v. 1. interweave, braid, knit, twist; intertwine, intertwist, interlace, interknit; join, unite, connect, tie, bind, conjoin, fix; fasten, Naut. bend, knot, yoke, link, belt, cinch; dovetail, miter, weld, rabbet; mortise, overlap, graft.
-n. 2. union, juncture, joining, bond, tie, joint, link, fastener; connection, liaison, tie-up, knotting, knot; linkage, linking, fastening.
splinter, n. 1. sliver, fragment, piece, shiver, bit, shard, stinger; spill, spall, Brit. Dial, spale; paring, chip, shaving, shred, slip; All Collective, flinders, Inf smithers, smithereens.
-v. 2. split, break up, break into pieces, chip, spall; separate, part, fragment, segment; crumble, disintegrate, shatter; atomize, pulverize, break into smithereens.