biliously
9.5
An unpleasant yellow-green color like bile
- adverb
- /ˈbɪl.i.əs.li/
:
de manera biliosa
- The leaves turned biliously yellow as autumn approached, signaling the end of summer.
Examples
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The artist painted the sky a biliously green hue, evoking a sense of unease.
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Islands of slick black sand slumped to the horizon, tufted biliously green in patches.
Fiction book (1994) -
He felt biliously nauseated after eating too much rich food at the party.
Antonyms
How Yellow
Surface Forms
biliously positive
Morphology
Etymology
Biliously comes from the Latin root bilis, meaning 'bile', the yellow-green liquid from the body. That's why something described as biliously often looks sickly yellow or green and feels unpleasant.