Atrabilious
Origin
From Latin Ätra bÄ«lis ("black bile"), from Äter ("dark, black"), + bÄ«lis ("bile"). Then the adjective suffix -ous ("full of") was added.
Full definition of atrabilious
Adjective
atrabilious
- characterized by melancholyDo we listen to pop music because of atrabiliousness, or are we atrabilious because we listen to pop music? (High Fidelity magazine paraphrase)
- ill-natured; malevolent
- 1946, Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop, page 40:Fen was in an atrabilious mood."You've been the devil of a time," he grumbled as Lily Christine III got under way again.