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Adjective
/ˈbilyəs/,
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Affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting,
  1. Affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting
    • - I had eaten something that didn't agree with me and I was a little bilious
  2. (of a color) Lurid or sickly
    • - a bilious olive hue
  3. Spiteful; bad-tempered
    • - outbursts of bilious misogyny
  4. Of or relating to bile

  1. relating to or containing bile
  2. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
  3. atrabilious: irritable as if suffering from indigestion
  4. (biliousness) temper: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
  5. Bile or gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green to yellowish brown fluid, produced by the liver of most vertebrates, that aids the process of digestion of lipids in the small intestine. In many species, bile is stored in the gallbladder and upon eating is discharged into the duodenum.
  6. Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured; Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile; Irritable or bad tempered; irascible
  7. (biliousness) The state of being bilious
  8. (Biliousness) Jaundice associated with liver disease.
  9. The adjective for bile, bilious has three meanings. It means of or relating to bile. By extension, bilious means suffering from liver dysfunction (and especially excessive secretion of bile). And, further by extension, it is indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition. ...
  10. (BIL ee-us) adj. Irritable. [yellow bile]
  11. Pertaining to a liver disorder or bile. Jaundice and nausea/vomiting often were described as “bilious”, but it should be noted that many supposed liver disorders in pre-modern medicine were not actually caused by liver problems.