dyspeptic

[US]/dɪsˈpeptɪk/
[UK]/dɪsˈpeptɪk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. suffering from indigestion or having a weak stomach
n. a person who suffers from indigestion
Word Forms

Real-world Examples

She was too tired, sometimes, even to smile, John grew dyspeptic after a course of dainty dishes and ungratefully demanded plain fare.

Source: Little Women (Bilingual Edition)

If she was hot or cold or dyspeptic or at a loss for a word, she went to the book, and it told her which button to press.

Source: The machine has stopped operating.

Jo announced that the coffee was ready, and everyone settled themselves to a hearty meal, for youth is seldom dyspeptic, and exercise develops wholesome appetites.

Source: "Little Women" original version

He had been touched by the sympathy of his fellow-men: had thought indulgently of the world, as a better place than the failures and the dyspeptics would acknowledge.

Source: Humans and Ghosts (Part 1)

I think of fogs in London, fogs of murky yellow or of sheer black, such as have often made all work impossible to me, and held me, a sort of dyspeptic owl, in moping and blinking idleness.

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

A hypochondriacal tendency had shown itself in the banker's constitution of late; and a lack of sleep, which was really only a slight exaggeration of an habitual dyspeptic symptom, had been dwelt on by him as a sign of threatening insanity.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Five)

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