jaundiced

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
25
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪst/

Definition of jaundiced

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Affected with jaundice.
    “Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.”
    “Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.”
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adj

  1. Affected with jaundice.
    “Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.”
    “Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.”
  2. (figuratively)Prejudiced; envious.
    “a jaundiced judgment”
    “Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. [...] The eye was jaundiced, thanks to the heat and foul dust of Bornu, to malaria, dysentery, inferior food, poisonous water, and rapid continuous marching in appalling heat.”
    “Although Professor Davidson took a very jaundiced view of the Neptune probe, it had already been approved and he saw no point in sending more good money after bad.”
    “If we have experienced a hostile world in childhood, we will continue to view almost everyone with a jaundiced eye and react to them according to our perception.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of jaundice

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Etymology

From jaundice + -ed.

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