jaundice

1. 1.

   yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia

   Synonymsicterus

   Broadersymptom

   Narrowerjaundice of the newbornkernicterus

   Partshyperbilirubinemia
2. 2.

   a rough and bitter manner

   Synonymsbitternessacrimonyacerbitytartnessthorniness

   Broaderdisagreeableness

1. 1.

   distort adversely

   “Jealousy had jaundiced his judgment”

   Broaderdeform
2. 2.

   affect with, or as if with, jaundice

   Broaderaffect

Other forms of jaundice

plural

jaundices·

past tense

jaundiced·

present participle

jaundicing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jaundice

What does jaundice mean?

jaundice means "yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jaundice?

jaundice has 2 syllables: jaun-dice. The stress falls on "jaun". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɔndəs/.

What is another word for jaundice?

Close synonyms include icterus, bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, tartness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jaundice a common word?

jaundice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.