atrabilious

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having an excess of black bile.
2. adjective Characterized by melancholy.
3. adjective Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.

Similar words

bilious dyspeptic liverish ill-natured gloomy bileful bladdered maladious purulosanguinous sanguine

Often followed by

humour humor temperament and look temper shakespeare tendency gloom

Word family

atrabiliousness atrabiliousnesses