atrabilious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌæ.tɹəˈbɪ.li.əs/
atrabilious
- (medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
- 1645, Arthur Wilson, quoted in Antonia Fraser, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England, London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 1984, ISBN 978-0-297-78381-7:
- [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.
- 1645, Arthur Wilson, quoted in Antonia Fraser, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England, London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 1984, ISBN 978-0-297-78381-7:
- Characterized by melancholy.
- Do we listen to pop music because of atrabiliousness, or are we atrabilious because we listen to pop music? (High Fidelity magazine paraphrase)
- Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
- (characterized by melancholy) seeSynonyms en
- (ill-natured) seeSynonyms en
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