dyspeptic

Synonyms for dyspeptic

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Word Origin & History

1690s, from Greek dyspeptos "hard to digest," from dys- "bad" (see dys-) + peptos "digested," from peptein "digest" (see cook (n.)).

He was now an intelligent man of sixteen, but dyspeptic and difficile.

Is No. 48 to be deprived of the 'Hat-catcher's Daughter' because 47 is dyspeptic?

He was dyspeptic and suffered from gnawing hunger in the morning.

He was dyspeptic, and suffered from gnawing hunger in the morning.

He had raised a large family and there was not a dyspeptic in the lot—not even a banter.

It is not the kind of food that makes a dyspeptic, but the quantity.

He is a dyspeptic being, homesick and desponding, but he is a man.

But no invalid or dyspeptic should enter the portals of a Javan hotel.

Our food was simple enough for the most dyspeptic homœopathist.

"By preparing himself for a dyspeptic existence," said Milly.