eupeptic

English

Etymology

eu- + peptic

Adjective

eupeptic (comparative more eupeptic, superlative most eupeptic)

  1. Having or relating to good digestion.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      As to the self-sufficiency of this world, a successful Professor with a eupeptic body might take such a view, but if one found oneself with cancer of the stomach in a London garret, one might question the doctrine that there was no need to yearn for any state of being save that in which we found ourselves.
  2. Cheerful.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 77:
      Soon two officers of the Malay Regiment came in, morbidly eupeptic.

Romanian

Etymology

From French eupeptique.

Adjective

eupeptic m or n (feminine singular eupeptică, masculine plural eupeptici, feminine and neuter plural eupeptice)

  1. eupeptic

Declension

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