Dyspeptic

Quick meaning: Dyspeptic is an adjective meaning (pathology, not comparable) Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.

Meaning

(pathology, not comparable) Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, comparable) Irritable or morose.
2. A dyspeptic person.

Example Sentences

Sir Maurice made a rough, dyspeptic sound, as if chewing a mint.

There is, for example, the hamburg-steak, of which the alliaceousness can seduce all but saints and the worst of dyspeptics.

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.

...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.

Word Forms

• dyspeptics

Synonyms for dyspeptic

Depending on context, synonyms include bad-tempered, bilious, irritable, morose, sick, atrabilious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bilious, atrabilious, liverish, sick, ill-natured, ill.

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