Meanings
adjectiveatrabilarious (comparative more atrabilarious, superlative most atrabilarious)
comparative more atrabilarious · superlative most atrabilarious
- historicalmedicinePertaining to black bile.
- Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called blue devils.
1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I
Origin
- Latinātrabīlārius
- Englishatrabilarious
From Latin ātrabīlārius.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with atrabilarious
varioushilariousAquariusprecariouscalcareousnefariousvicariousStradivariusmultifariouscariousBelisariusscopariuslibrariusmalariousacinariousadversariousanticariousapocrisariusapocrisiariusarbitrariousarenariousargillocalcareousarmariusassarius
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
atrabilarious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/atrabilarious
MLA
“atrabilarious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/atrabilarious. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “atrabilarious,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/atrabilarious.
Source: atrabilarious on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.