bitter
1. [ adjective ] marked by strong resentment or cynicism
Synonyms: acrimonious
Examples:

"an acrimonious dispute" "bitter about the divorce"

Related terms: resentful
2. [ adjective ] very difficult to accept or bear
Examples:

"the bitter truth" "a bitter sorrow"

Related terms: intolerable
3. [ adjective ] harsh or corrosive in tone
Synonyms: acid blistering acrid virulent acerbic sulfurous sulphurous venomous caustic vitriolic acerb
Examples:

"an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose" "a barrage of acid comments" "her acrid remarks make her many enemies" "bitter words" "blistering criticism" "caustic jokes" "a sulfurous denunciation"

Related terms: unpleasant
4. [ adjective ] one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine
Related terms: tasteful
5. [ adjective ] expressive of severe grief or regret
Examples:

"shed bitter tears"

Related terms: sorrowful
6. [ adjective ] proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
Examples:

"a bitter struggle" "bitter enemies"

Related terms: hostile
7. [ adjective ] causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
Synonyms: biting
Examples:

"bitter cold" "a biting wind"

Related terms: painful
8. [ verb ] make bitter
Related terms: change_taste bitterness
9. [ noun ] (psychology,food) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
Synonyms: bitterness
Related terms: taste pungency
10. [ adverb ] extremely and sharply
Synonyms: bitterly bitingly piercingly
Examples:

"it was bitterly cold" "bitter cold"

Related terms: cutting biting biting biting
11. [ noun ] (food) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
Related terms: ale UK
12. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 18335
13. [ noun ] the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
Synonyms: bitterness
Related terms: taste_property acridity acerbity
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