liverish

Questions about liverish

What does liverish mean?

liverish means "suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liverish?

liverish has 3 syllables and divides as li-ve-rish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for liverish?

Close synonyms include bilious, livery, atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic. 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 liverish a common word?

liverish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.