atrabilious

a. 忧郁的, 易怒的

发音

其它 /ˌæ.tɹəˈbɪl.i.əs/

词形变化

more atrabilious 比较级 most atrabilious 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Having an excess of black bile.

    废旧 医学

    [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. 2.

    Characterized by melancholy.

  3. 3.

    Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 3

bilious dyspeptic liverish

近义相关 1

ill-natured

词源

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.

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