atrabilarious

English

Etymology

From Latin ātrabīlārius.

Adjective

atrabilarious (comparative more atrabilarious, superlative most atrabilarious)

  1. (medicine, historical) Pertaining to black bile.
  2. Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
    • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I:
      This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.

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