bilious
About 0.27 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
- adjective Resembling bile, especially in color.
- adjective Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
- adjective Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
Similar words
atrabilious biliary dyspeptic liverish sick ill-natured ill livery cholic remittent
Often followed by
fever vomiting and attack attacks remittent temperament fevers colic
Word family
biliously biliousness biliousnesses
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