English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin ātrabīlārius.

Adjective edit

atrabilarious (comparative more atrabilarious, superlative most atrabilarious)

  1. (medicine, historical) Pertaining to black bile.
  2. Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
    • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I:
      This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.