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adj
Having an excess of black bile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
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adj
Characterized by melancholy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
irritable as if suffering from indigestion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
