Bilious Definition

bĭlyəs
adjective
Having or resulting from some ailment of the bile or the liver.
Webster's New World
Afflicted with nausea or vomiting; queasy.
Webster's New World
Of or like the color of bile.
A bilious green.
Webster's New World
Bad-tempered; cross.
Webster's New World
Resembling bile, especially in color.
A bilious green.
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Origin of Bilious

  • From French bilieux, from Latin bīliōsus (“full of bile”), from bīlis (“bile”) + -ōsus (“full of”).

    From Wiktionary

Bilious Sentence Examples

  • He had what the doctors termed "bilious fever."

  • The material on staging is impressively technical and represented in wonderfully bilious colors which recall the great days of 1980s computing.

  • Severe remittents (pernicious or bilious remittents) approximate to the type of yellow fever, which is conventionally limited to epidemic outbreaks in western longitudes and on the west coast of Africa.

  • Therefore Hippocrates not improperly advised those who were naturally bilious not to take honey, since they were obviously of too warm a temperament.

  • The vomitus will be greenish (bilious) because it contains bile from the gallbladder.

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SUSOUS

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