Word of the Day:
atrabilious
What It Means
Having an excess of black bile.
Characterized by melancholy.
Atrabilious in Context
“Fen was in an atrabilious mood. "You've been the devil of a time," he grumbled as Lily Christine III got under way again.”
Did You Know?
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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