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atrabilious

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌæ.tɹəˈbɪl.i.əs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aabiilorstuStarts with AEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

Word origin

From Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”) (āter (“dark, black”) + bīlis (“bile”)) + -ous (“full of”), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency.

Used in a sentence

  • [I] could see nothing in the evidence which did persuade me to think them other than poor, melancholy, envious, mischievous, ill-disposed, ill-dieted, atrabilious constitutions.
  • But the torch of taste has for the moment fallen into the hands of little men, anæmic and atrabilious, with neither laughter nor pity in their hearts.
  • Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey [sic] is a 32nd generation Northumberlander.

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