Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with melancholy, which the ancients attributed to black bile; atrabilious.
- noun A person of an atrabiliar temperament; a hypochondriac. Disraeli.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affected with melancholy; atrabilious.
- noun A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by
melancholy orglum ;atrabilarious ;atrabilious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This coldness on the part of the public shot an atrabilarian tint through the ambition of our poet, and the fond hope of a success in literature faded from his mind.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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This coldness on the part of the public shot an atrabilarian tint through the ambition of our poet, and the fond hope of a success in literature faded from his mind.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Old Nick probably did not come off because at the moment he was an atrabilarian suffering acutely from black bile or black choler, and his atrabilariousness was making him woefully chumpish.
yarb commented on the word atrabilarian
He stopped, he directed upon her his atrabilarian eyes, biting his umbrella handle; he was extremely nervous.
- Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...
March 9, 2008
seanahan commented on the word atrabilarian
From Webster's, "A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. --I. Disraeli."
March 10, 2008
whichbe commented on the word atrabilarian
A collector of atras.
December 31, 2008