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dyspeptic

dyspeptic

1 9.9
A person who often has an upset stomach or is bad-tempered
  • noun
  • /dɪsˈpɛptɪk/
  • Formal
translation icon : dispeptico
  • The dyspeptic customer left the restaurant grumbling about the slow service and the cold food.

Examples

  • Her dyspeptic demeanor made it clear that she was unhappy with the way things were going.

  • Where the Gothic hero had been suicidally inclined, the bachelor hero is a hypochondriac: the Gothic hero ranges from euphoria to despondency; the bachelor hero from the eupeptic to the dyspeptic.

    Academic text (1997)

  • After a long day at work, he was a dyspeptic, complaining about everything that went wrong.

Synonyms

sourpuss
vsdyspeptic
  • Offensive
9 8.0

A person who often seems unhappy and grumpy

can also mean someone with indigestion rather than only a mood
gloomy Gus
vsdyspeptic
  • Informal
2 8.6

A person who is often sad and thinks things will go wrong

can also mean someone with indigestion or irritability, not just pessimism

Antonyms

cheerful
111 1.0

Happy in a way you show with a smile or friendly actions

content
108 1.0

A feeling of being happy with what you have

Compounds

dyspeptic expression
9.6

A face that shows discomfort or dislike

dyspeptic mood
9.9

A feeling that makes a person bad-tempered and gloomy

How Irritable

curmudgeon
  • Offensive
10 9.9
dyspeptic
  • Formal
1 9.9
grouch
14 5.2

Surface Forms

dyspeptic singular
dyspeptics plural

Morphology

dyspeptic = dyspeptic (opaque) = dys + pept + ic

The noun is a straightforward conversion of the adjective, meaning a person who is dyspeptic.

Etymology

Dyspeptic comes from dys- 'bad' and pept- 'digestion', the same dys- you see in dysfunctional and the idea of 'digestion' like in digest. So a dyspeptic was someone with poor digestion and often a grumpy, unhappy person.