atrabilious
adjectiveB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjectiveComparative
more atrabilious
Superlative
most atrabilious
- 1.
(obsolete)(medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
[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.
- 2.
Characterized by melancholy.
- 3.
Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
Từ liên quan
Đồng nghĩa
characterized by melancholy sad lamentableirritable
Cùng gốc / liên quan
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Nguồn gốc từ
From la ātra bīlis black bile (āter (dark, black) + bīlis (bile)) -ous, referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency.