Bilious

Definitions: Bilious

Bilious

Adjective

1. Relating to or containing bile.

2. Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress.

3. Irritable as if suffering from indigestion.

Date "bilious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Bilious

Synonyms: atrabilious (adj), biliary (adj), dyspeptic (adj), liverish (adj), livery (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful; dolesome, doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic; lackadaisical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bilious

English words defined with "bilious": Antibillous ♦ Bilious temperament ♦ Choleric temperament ♦ Gall sickness ♦ Tabasheer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bilious": HOMILETICS ♦ liver ♦ MALACHRA, MONOLENA CORDIFOLIA. (references)

Etymologies containing "bilious": Choler, Cholera. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever As It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia (Notable American Authors) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name -- liver, the thing we live with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bilious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bilious" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	44	51,500

Expressions using "bilious": atrabilious bilious dyspeptic liverish ♦ bilious attack ♦ bilious complaint ♦ Bilious temperament. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "bilious": anti-bilious.
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Language		Translations for "bilious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مكبود, ‏مصفور, ‏صفراوي (biliary). (various references)

Czech		nevrlý (bad tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, snappy, sour, splenetic, sullen, surly), žluèníkový. (various references)

Danish		black water fever (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), biliær diatese (bilious diathesis), svær hæmoglobinuri ved Plasmodium falcifiparum-attak (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), sortvandsfeber (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), kurbad for galdelidelser (spa for bilious affections), galdefeber (bilious fever, bilious fevers), galdediæt (mild diet for bilious affections), abdominalmigræne (bilious attacks). (various references)

Dutch		migraine abdominale (bilious attacks), kuur voor de galwegen (spa for bilious affections), galkoorts (bilious fever, bilious fevers), febris biliosa haemoglobinurica (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever), diathesis biliosa (bilious diathesis). (various references)

Farsi		سوداءی مزاج , زرداب ریز, صفراوی (Xanthic), صفراءی مزاج . (various references)

Finnish		malarian hemoglobinuurinen keltakuume (bilious hemoglobinuric fever, blackwater fever, malarial hemoglobinuria, malarial hemoglobinuric fever). (various references)

French		bilieux, maussade, irritable. (various references)

German		giftig (baneful, contaminative, deleterious, noisome, poisonous, shrewish, toxic, toxical, venomous, venomously, viperous, virulent, virulently, vitriolic, waspish, waspishly, waspy), gallenkrank. (various references)

Greek		πικρόχολοσ (morose, wry), χολερικόσ (choleric). (various references)

Hungarian		nehéz természetű, kötekedő (cantankerous, disputatious, jocose, pugnacious, stroppy, testy, tetchy), ingerlékeny (be irritated, excitable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, highly strung, hot tempered, hot-tempered, ill tempered, inflammable, irascible, irritable, like a bear with a sore head, nervous, nettlesome, neurotic, peevish, peppery, perverse, petulant, prickly, techy, testy, tetchy), epével kapcsolatos, epés (acrimonious, caustic, jaundiced, liverish, venomous, virulent). (various references)

Indonesian		muram (depressed, gloomy), lekas marah (choleric, irascible). (various references)

Italian		bilioso (livery), biliare (biliary), collerico (choleric, hot tempered, irascible, passionate, waspish). (various references)

Manx		jiooldagh (dissident, nauseating, nauseous, negative, revolting, sickly, squeamish), buighagh (jaundice). (various references)

Pig Latin		iliousbay

Portuguese		bilioso (jaundiced), irritável (crab, crabbed, crusty, edgy, fretful, grumpy, hot-blooded, huffish, huffy, irate, irritable, liver-coloured, liveried, livery, nervous, nervy, petulant, shirty, short tempered, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

Romanian		bilios, biliar (biliary), irascibil (cranky, fretful, huffish, irascible, irritable, magged, quick tempered, short tempered, sour, waspy), coleric (choleric, violent). (various references)

Russian		желчный (acrimonious, adust, biliary, choleric, jaundiced, liverish, spleenful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žučni (biliary). (various references)

Spanish		bilioso. (various references)

Swedish		gallsjuk. (various references)

Thai		อยากอาเจียน. (various references)

Turkish		safra ile ilgili, huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded), öd ile ilgili. (various references)

Ukranian		огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), жовчний (acrimonious, adust, atrabilarious, atrabiliary, atrabilious, biliary, choleric, jaundiced, liverish), дратівливий (capernoited, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, exasperating, fretful, grumpy, hoity toity, impatient, irascible, irritable, petulant, short tempered, spleenful, tetchy, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese		bẳn tính (biliously), dễ cáu (biliously, fiery, irascible, nervy, passionate, quick-tempered, rambunctious, raspy, waspish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bilious": biliously, biliousness, biliousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "bilious": atrabilious. (additional references)
	Words containing "bilious": atrabiliousness, atrabiliousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bilious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bailemos, banlieues, Beeious, belinus, Belouis, belous, beloush, bibios, Biblique, bilaous, bilboes, bileous, bilio, bilions, biliosus, bilius, billious, billous, Bilou, bilous, bilulous, bolous, Bolsius, bullious, bullous, filioque, vilious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bilious" (pronounced bi"lēus)
5	-i" l ē u s	punctilious, supercilious.
4	-l ē u s	alias, coleus, nucleus.
3	-ē u s	acrimonious, amphibious, aqueous, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hideous, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, previous, radius, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, studious, tedious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-i-i-l-o-s-u"
	-2 letters: boils, bolus, louis.
	-3 letters: bios, boil, ibis, libs, lobs, obis, oils, silo, slob, slub, soil, soli, soul.
	-4 letters: bio, bis, bos, bus, lib, lis, lob, obi, oil, sib, sob, sol, sou, sub.
	-5 letters: bi, bo, is, li, lo, os, si, so, us.
	Words containing the letters "b-i-i-l-o-s-u"
	+2 letters: biliously, oblivious.
	+3 letters: boilersuit, libidinous, lubricious, solubilise, solubility, solubilize, subsoiling.
	+4 letters: ambitiously, atrabilious, biliousness, biofoulings, boilersuits, ebullitions, jubilations, obliquities, obliviously, solubilised, solubilises, solubilized, solubilizes, sublimation.
	+5 letters: absolutistic, absolutizing, amphibiously, automobilist, connubialism, copublishing, indissoluble, indissolubly, insalubrious, insolubility, insolubilize, libidinously, lubrications, lubriciously, nebulosities, neurofibrils, nonbuildings, outbuildings, publications, solubilising, solubilities, solubilizing, subeditorial, sublimations, tibiofibulas, tourbillions, tribulations, ubiquitously, volubilities.
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