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a 1 t 1 r 1 a 1 b 3 i 1 l 1 i 1 o 1 u 1 s 1

11 letters · 13 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective irritable as if suffering from indigestion

originFrom Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”) (āter (“dark, black”) + bīlis (“bile”)) + -ous (“full of”), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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