yellow bile

1. 1.

   a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger

   Synonymscholer

   Broaderliquid body substance

Questions about yellow bile

What does yellow bile mean?

yellow bile means "a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger".

What is another word for yellow bile?

Close synonyms include choler. 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 yellow bile a common word?

yellow bile 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.