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This week's theme Words from medicine. This week's words costive roborant catholicon atrabilious Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Got a website? Free content for your site words, quotations & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg atrabilious PRONUNCIATION: (at-ruh-BIL-yuhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Gloomy. 2. Ill-tempered. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin atra bilis (black bile), translation of Greek melankholia. USAGE: "A couple of nights ago on BBC Two they scheduled an amusing programme, called Grumpy Old Women at Christmas, in which a lot of atrabilious female semi celebs of a certain age moaned about the festive season." Jane Shilling; Not a Card Sent or a Bauble Hung; The Times (London, UK); Dec 23, 2004. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

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