bilious

bilious
    adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: {bilious},
           {biliary}]
    2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric
       distress [syn: {bilious}, {liverish}, {livery}]
    3: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn:
       {atrabilious}, {bilious}, {dyspeptic}, {liverish}]
    

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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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