atrabilarian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”).
Adjective
[edit]atrabilarian (comparative more atrabilarian, superlative most atrabilarian)
- Characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
- We come now to what we call the earthy or atrabilarian Constitution , where the spirituous and most fluid Parts of the Blood are dissipated
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, “Some Do Not”, in Parade's End, volume 1:
- He stopped, he directed upon her his atrabilarian eyes, biting his umbrella handle; he was extremely nervous.