Dyspeptic

//dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dyspeptic person.

    "Medical management of peptic ulcers is employed along with psychotherapy to greater advantage than the multitude of operations employed twenty years ago for the unfortunate dyspeptic."

  2. 2
    a person suffering from indigestion wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion. not-comparable

    "...but Lady Anne could not be deceived—in five years' time he would become dyspeptic, be surrounded by physicians, consigned to all the Badens in Germany, and think much more of a renovating draught than a beautiful young wife."

  2. 2
    Irritable or morose. comparable, figuratively

    "He was a sallow, dyspeptic man, with a premature shock of grey hair, attached to the stage as an occupation but not a vocation. His only passion was gambling on the race-course, which was attended with perpetual bad luck, though that appeared to act as a stimulus rather than to dampen his fervour."

Adjective
  1. 1
    irritable as if suffering from indigestion wordnet
  2. 2
    suffering from dyspepsia wordnet

Synonyms

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biliousallergicanemicapoplecticarthriticatrabilious

Example

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"...but Lady Anne could not be deceived—in five years' time he would become dyspeptic, be surrounded by physicians, consigned to all the Badens in Germany, and think much more of a renovating draught than a beautiful young wife."

Etymology

First attested in 1694. From Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος (dúspeptos, “difficult to digest”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + πέπτω (péptō, “to digest”).

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