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English
Etymology
From Latin ātrabīlārius.
Adjective
atrabilarious (comparative more atrabilarious, superlative most atrabilarious)
- (medicine, historical) Pertaining to black bile.
- 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.
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