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   At·ra·bil·ious

   /ˌatrəˈbilyəs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. melancholy or ill-tempered: literary "an atrabilious old man"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (in the sense ‘affected by black bile’, one of the four supposed cardinal humors of the body, believed to cause melancholy): from Latin atra bilis ‘black bile’, translation of Greek melankholia ‘melancholy’, + -ious.

   Derivatives

   • 1. atrabiliousness noun

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