atrabilarious

English

Etymology

From Latin ātrabīlārius.

Adjective

atrabilarious (comparative more atrabilarious, superlative most atrabilarious)

1. (medicine, historical) Pertaining to black bile.
2. Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I:

     This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.

Derived terms

• atrabilariousness