different between atrabilious vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Latin ?tra b?lis (“black bile”) (?ter (“dark, black”) + b?lis (“bile”)) +? -ous (“full of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.t???b?.li.?s/
• Hyphenation: atra?bili?ous

Adjective

atrabilious (comparative more atrabilious, superlative most atrabilious)

1. (medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
   • 1645, Arthur Wilson, quoted in Antonia Fraser, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England, London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., 1984, ISBN 978-0-297-78381-7:

     [I] could see nothing in the evidence which did persuade me to think them other than poor, melancholy, envious, mischievous, ill-disposed, ill-dieted, atrabilious constitutions.
2. Characterized by melancholy.

   Do we listen to pop music because of atrabiliousness, or are we atrabilious because we listen to pop music? (High Fidelity magazine paraphrase)
3. Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.

Synonyms

• (characterized by melancholy): See Thesaurus:sad or Thesaurus:lamentable
• (ill-natured): See Thesaurus:irritable

Related terms

• atrabilarious
• atrabiliously
• atrabiliousness

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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