atrabilious

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having an excess of black bile.

   “[I] could see nothing in the evidence which did persuade me to think them other than poor, melancholy, envious, mischievous, ill-disposed, ill-dieted, atrabilious constitutions.”

2. sıfat Characterized by melancholy.

   “But the torch of taste has for the moment fallen into the hands of little men, anæmic and atrabilious, with neither laughter nor pity in their hearts.”

3. sıfat Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.

   “Fen was in an atrabilious mood. "You've been the devil of a time," he grumbled as Lily Christine III got under way again.”