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Bitter

adjective

1.

Marked by strong resentment or cynicism. Synonym: acrimonious. "Bitter about the divorce"

2.

Very difficult to accept or bear. "A bitter sorrow"

3.

Harsh or corrosive in tone. Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic. "A barrage of acid comments" , "Her acrid remarks make her many enemies" , "Bitter words" , "Blistering criticism" , "Caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics" , "A sulfurous denunciation" , "A vitriolic critique"

4.

Expressive of severe grief or regret.

5.

Proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity. "Bitter enemies"

6.

Causing a sharp and acrid taste experience.

7.

Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold. Synonym: biting. "A biting wind"

noun

1.

English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft).

2.

The taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth. Synonym: bitterness.

3.

The property of having a harsh unpleasant taste. Synonym: bitterness.

verb

1.

Make bitter.

adverb

1.

Extremely and sharply. Synonyms: bitingly, bitterly, piercingly. "Bitter cold"

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"Bitter" Quotes from Famous Books

... called. From his place of vantage in the hall Giselher reproached his sister with her treachery, and Kriemhild offered to spare her brothers if they would consent to give up Hagen. But this offer they contemptuously refused, holding death preferable to such dishonour. Kriemhild, in her bitter hate, set the hall on fire, and most of the Burgundians perished in the conflagration. Kriemhild and the Huns were astounded, however, when in the morning they discovered six hundred of the Burgundians were still alive. The queen appealed to Ruediger to complete ...

— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

... he is out of the running. Come over to me and listen whilst I tell you something." She sat down and pulled the suffering child down beside her, who lay across the silken knees like the stricken mother across the knees of the wise Madonna and made no sound or movement whilst she listened to the bitter words of the fortune-teller in the ...

— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest

... we proceed further, it behoves us to answer the objections contained in the following passage, or withdraw ourselves in time from the bitter contempt in which it would involve us. Acting under such a necessity, we need not apologise for ...

— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... strangest dinner-party that ever was seen. There were such a multitude of odd creatures, of all shapes and sizes and colours; some of whom were by nature bitter enemies, and would have fought and killed each other had they met in the woods while taking a walk, but were quite civil and polite to one another, now that they met as guests in Mrs Butterfly's bower. Indeed, many of them wished that they ...

— The Butterfly's Ball - The Grasshopper's Feast • R.M. Ballantyne

... misery. He knew that Daphne must be on her way to rejoin her lover, and tried to console himself by the reflection that it didn't matter to him. He was done for, anyhow, whether she went or stayed. But again came the bitter thought that there had been a time when, if he had only gone the right way about it, he might have—"I thought she wasn't good enough to marry," he said to himself. "Not good enough! a girl like her! Now I'm booked to marry a Lord-knows-what with green hair. Serves ...

— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

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