bilious

/bˈɪlɪəs/

/ˈbɪɫiəs/

[adjective]

bilious

[ADJECTIVE]

relating to or containing bile

synonyms : biliary

irritable as if suffering from indigestion

synonyms : atrabilious

dyspeptic

liverish

suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

synonyms : liverish

livery

having a tendency to be irritable or ill-tempered

Examples

1. When the liver is affected, it's termed bilious malaria, and it results in diarrhea, vomiting, jaundice, and liver failure.

2. And his older sister, Margaret, died at nine from something called bilious fever.

3. And we kinda tried to really turn him really into this bilious little man.

4. The vomit is also non-bilious, meaning it doesn’t contain bile, which makes sense, since bile secretion happens after the pyloric sphincter in the duodenum.