bitter | ||
1. | [ adjective ] marked by strong resentment or cynicism | |
Synonyms: | acrimonious | |
Examples: | "an acrimonious dispute" "bitter about the divorce" |
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Related terms: | resentful | |
2. | [ adjective ] very difficult to accept or bear | |
Examples: | "the bitter truth" "a bitter sorrow" |
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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" |
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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" |
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Related terms: | sorrowful | |
6. | [ adjective ] proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | |
Examples: | "a bitter struggle" "bitter enemies" |
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Related terms: | hostile | |
7. | [ adjective ] causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | |
Synonyms: | biting | |
Examples: | "bitter cold" "a biting wind" |
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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" |
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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 | |
Similar spelling: |
biter bidder Butter better batter buttery battery |