atrabilious

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. irritable as if suffering from indigestionSynonyms: biliousdyspepticliverishOpposite good-naturedSimilar ill-natured
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

At′ra·bil′ious (…), adjective

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision.

A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race.— James Russell Lowell
He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful.— James Anthony Froude

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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