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This week's theme Medicinal words to describe people This week's words choleric phlegmatic sanguine melancholic bilious Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Discuss this week's words on our bulletin board: Wordsmith Talk Next week's theme Miscellaneous words Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg bilious PRONUNCIATION: (BIL-yuhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Extremely unpleasant. 2. Ill-natured; irritable. 3. Relating to bile. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bilis (bile). USAGE: "The Sharia introduction in some states of the federation has been a victim of these groups of elites' unbridled intimidatory and bilious antics." Abubakar Gimba; The Season of Unreason; Daily Trust (Abuja, Nigeria); Sep 18, 2002. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

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