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dyspeptic

UK/dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk/

dyspeptic adjective: of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.

Adjective

dyspeptic (comparative more dyspeptic, superlative most dyspeptic)

  1. (not comparable) Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.
    • ...but Lady Anne could not be deceived—in five years' time he would become dyspeptic, be surrounded by physicians, consigned to all the Badens in Germany, and think much more of a renovating draught than a beautiful young wife.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC...
    • If she was hot or cold or dyspeptic or at a loss for a word, she went to the book, and it told her which button to press.1909, E.M. Forster, “I”, in The Machine Stops
  2. (comparable, figuratively) Irritable or morose.
    • He was a sallow, dyspeptic man, with a premature shock of grey hair, attached to the stage as an occupation but not a vocation. His only passion was gambling on the race-course, which was attended with perpetual bad luck, though that appeared to act as a stimulus rather than to dampen his fervour.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 23
    • Sir Maurice made a rough, dyspeptic sound, as if chewing a mint.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Noun

dyspeptic (plural dyspeptics)

  1. A dyspeptic person.
    • Medical management of peptic ulcers is employed along with psychotherapy to greater advantage than the multitude of operations employed twenty years ago for the unfortunate dyspeptic.1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98
    • There is, for example, the hamburg-steak, of which the alliaceousness can seduce all but saints and the worst of dyspeptics.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 175

dyspeptic meaning in Malayalam

dyspeptic in Malayalam

short-tempered, bad-tempered, irritable
അജീർണ്ണംപിടിച്ച, അജീർണ്ണരോഗിയായ, ക്ഷിപ്രകോപം വരുന്ന, വേഗം കോപം വരുന്ന, വെറിപിടിച്ച, കുപിതനായ

Synonyms of dyspeptic

Forms of dyspeptic

Adjective
comparativemore dyspeptic
superlativemost dyspeptic
Noun
pluraldyspeptics

Origin of dyspeptic

First attested in 1694. From Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος (dúspeptos, “difficult to digest”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + πέπτω (péptō, “to digest”).

Words formed from dyspeptic

Words that rhyme with dyspeptic

Questions about dyspeptic

What does dyspeptic mean?
Dyspeptic means of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.
What is dyspeptic in Malayalam?
Dyspeptic in Malayalam is അജീർണ്ണംപിടിച്ച, അജീർണ്ണരോഗിയായ, ക്ഷിപ്രകോപം വരുന്ന. See Dyspeptic meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is dyspeptic?
Dyspeptic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce dyspeptic?
Dyspeptic is pronounced /dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk/ (UK).

Words near dyspeptic in the dictionary

  1. dyspathy
  2. dyspepsia
  3. dyspepsias
  4. dyspepsies
  5. dyspepsy
  6. dyspeptic
  7. dyspeptical
  8. dyspeptically
  9. dyspeptics
  10. dyspeptone
  11. dyspeptones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dyspeptic (page history and authors); dyspeptic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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