Bilious \Bil"ious\ (b[i^]l"y[u^]s), a. [L. biliosus, fr. bilis
bile.]
1. Of or pertaining to the bile.
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2. Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess
of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or
characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.
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3. Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob."
--Macaulay.
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Bilious temperament. See Temperament.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bilious
adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: biliary]
2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric
distress [syn: liverish, livery]
3: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: atrabilious,
dyspeptic, liverish]
WordNet (r) 2.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "bilious":
allergic, anemic, angry, apoplectic, arthritic, bad-tempered,
bitter, cancerous, chlorotic, choleric, colicky, consumptive,
cross, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, embittered, encephalitic,
epileptic, ill-natured, ill-tempered, jaundiced, laryngitic,
leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic,
neuritic, palsied, paralytic, peevish, petulant, phthisic,
pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic,
rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, sour, sour-tempered, soured,
tabetic, tabid, testy, tetchy, tubercular, tuberculous,
tumorigenic, tumorous, vinegarish, wrathful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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