Crossword-Solution: ATRABILIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atrabilious | a. | Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “ATRABILIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BLACK bite, affected by | 1 answer |
| BLACK bile, affected by | 1 answer |
| mordacious | 9 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| dispirited | 51 answers |
| Rancorous | 53 answers |
| pensive | 54 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| brawling | 63 answers |
| splenetic | 67 answers |
| Glum | 69 answers |
| Downhearted | 70 answers |
| Tart | 70 answers |
| Snappy. | 70 answers |
| refractory | 70 answers |
| Disconsolate | 71 answers |
| argumentative | 74 answers |
| Grey ____ | 80 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
| Gloomy | 89 answers |
| Angry | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATRABILIOUS (5)
Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; Ð from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania.
Perhaps the care of his farms, the interests of agriculture, an active out-door life had formerly soothed his atrabilious temper by giving it a field for its uneasiness, and by furnishing employment for his activity.
But those who say that life is a succession of misfortunes are certainly either ill or poor; for, if they enjoyed good health, if they had cheerfulness in their heart and money in their purse, if they had for their enjoyment a Cecilia, a Marinetta, and even a more lovely beauty in perspective, they would soon entertain a very different opinion of life! I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
Still more remarkable was it that the thaumaturgical Savonarola should have paused in the atrabilious invective with which he was inflaming Florence against the Pope, should have paused to send him a letter of condolence in which he prayed that the Lord of all mercy might comfort his Holiness in his tribulation.
This quandary is a typically anodyne European compromise which is bound to ferment into atrabilious discourse and worse.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).