liverish
- adjective
- /ˈlɪvərɪʃ/
- Archaic
:
malhumorado
- To be expected, she shrugs a tattooed shoulder, her crepey eyelids closed, her liverish lips sagging, her old face unlined only because fat stuffs it like a blood pudding.
Examples
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I may have been a bit liverish when I fired him.
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Laura's cheekbones and forehead, half-concealed under the spill of her hair, were a raw, liverish color.
Fiction book (1991) -
Change will do you good, you look a little liverish.
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Now, looking down on his drooping belly and liverish legs, he felt sick again.
Fiction book (1998) -
Pasty skin, liverish, too-red lips, bruised-looking circles around his eyes.
Fiction book (1992) -
His overalls were of a liverish color, and the blue shirt he wore underneath was missing all its buttons, or at least all of them that Edith could see.
Fiction book (1997) -
An extinguished cigar, like the root of some small shrub, nestled in the corner of his mouth, above a wet, liverish, and distended lower lip; he held the door for her, enormous in gray cashmere, and winked as she stepped past.
Fiction book (1995) -
You seem a bit liverish; perhaps you should rest for a while.
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After eating that heavy meal, I felt liverish and needed some fresh air.
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He looked liverish and irritable, which worried his friends.
Synonyms
579
1.0
Feeling like you might throw up
66
4.4
Feeling like you will be sick
30
4.1
Feeling sick and likely to throw up
30
2.6
Often ill and looking weak or pale
10
4.5
Feeling sick and likely to vomit
2
9.1
Having an upset stomach or being bad-tempered
1
9.3
Feeling sick in the stomach and looking pale
1
6.7
Slightly ill in the stomach and likely to throw up
Being easily angry or often gloomy
Feeling tired, uneasy, and unable to focus
Antonyms
How Unwell
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Liverish comes from the body part liver plus the ending -ish, because people long ago thought the liver could make someone feel 'upset' or 'sick' inside. So, to feel liverish today is to feel a little ill or 'grumpy', as if your liver is bothered.