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Bilious

Disease
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Suffering from nausea, digestive disorder, or ill-tempered gloom.

Detailed Definition
Bilious historically refers to a bodily excess of bile and the sickness, irritability, or yellowed complexion associated with it. Poets may use it literally for queasy flesh or figuratively for a sour, resentful temperament. A bilious dawn, sky, or court can suggest sickly yellow light and moral disgust. The word carries old medical associations, making it especially useful in historical, Gothic, or satirical verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A bilious dawn rose yellow over the harbor, using the word’s sickly color and mood; The bilious king spat curses into his cup, linking bodily bile with bitter temperament; A poet may describe bilious smoke to make an industrial scene feel poisonous; In “bilious laughter,” the adjective turns laughter into something sour, hostile, and unhealthy
Additional Notes
An older medical word also used for sour temper or gloomy mood. It can suggest bodily and emotional unrest.
Also Known As
Liverish Choleric Choleraic Dyspeptic Hepatic Jaundiced
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