Synonyms for bilious
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Peevish — peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible
peevish, choleric, jaundiced, petulant, cantankerous, ill-natured, irascible, cranky, testy, splenetic, ill-tempered, irritable, bad-tempered, tetchy UK US IE, sour, surly
2. Dyspeptic
Definitions
- adj. 1
Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
- adj. 2
Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
Related words
- Word family
- biliousness bile
Example sentences
- petulant Her petulant humor upset the attendees.
- jaundiced That's just the jaundiced view of an old cynic.
- peevish Tom woke up feeling rather peevish.
- choleric It isn't easy to live with a choleric person.
By length
- 4 letters
- sour2
- 5 letters
- surly2, testy2
- 6 letters
- cranky2, livery3, tetchy
- 7 letters
- biliary, peevish2
- 8 letters
- petulant3, choleric3, liverish
- 9 letters
- irritable4, irascible4, jaundiced2, dyspeptic3, splenetic
- 11 letters
- atrabilious
- 12 letters
- cantankerous4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sour2 = 2 syllables).