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: May 25, 2025
\diss-PEP-tik\ adjective
What It Means
Dyspeptic is a formal and old-fashioned word used to describe someone who is bad-tempered (in other words, easily annoyed or angered), or something that shows or is characteristic of a bad temper. The noun form of dyspeptic is dyspepsia.
// The comedian’s shtick of delivering dyspeptic rants on the daily annoyances of modern life was enormously popular.
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