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atrabiliar

atrabiliar adjective: melancholy; atrabilious.

Adjective

atrabiliar (comparative more atrabiliar, superlative most atrabiliar)

  1. (archaic) melancholy; atrabilious
    • ‘Paris marching on us?’ responds Mounier, with an atrabiliar accent: ‘Well, so much the better! We shall the sooner be a Republic.’1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 257

Forms of atrabiliar

comparativemore atrabiliar
superlativemost atrabiliar

Questions about atrabiliar

What does atrabiliar mean?
Atrabiliar means melancholy; atrabilious.
What part of speech is atrabiliar?
Atrabiliar is an adjective.

Words near atrabiliar in the dictionary

  1. ATR-X syndrome
  2. ATRA
  3. atrabilarian
  4. atrabilarious
  5. atrabilariousness
  6. atrabiliar
  7. atrabiliarious
  8. atrabiliary
  9. atrabilious
  10. atrabiliously
  11. atrabiliousness

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