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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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... archers and men-at-arms had mustered at that end of the lists, but the vast majority of the spectators were in favor of the attacking party, for the English had declined in popularity ever since the bitter dispute as to the disposal of the royal captive after the battle of Poictiers. Hence the applause was by no means general when the herald-at-arms proclaimed, after a flourish of trumpets, the names and styles of the knights who were prepared, for the ...

— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle

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— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... you have prepared, when she lies languid and exhausted before you, her dim eyes raised to heaven, and the damp of death upon her pallid brow, there you stand at her bedside like a condemned criminal, with the bitter feeling that your whole fortune could not save her; and the agonising thought wrings you, that all your efforts are powerless to impart even a moment's strength to the departing soul, or quicken her ...

— The Sorrows of Young Werther • J.W. von Goethe

... early as itself to seem untimely, and the Wednesday of its week was bleakness itself, as Lance and Robina stood on the top of the viaduct over the railway, looking over the parapet at the long perspective of rails and electric wires their faces screwed up, and reddened in unnatural places by the bitter blast. Felix had asked at breakfast if any one would be the bearer of a note to Marshlands; Lance had not very willingly volunteered, because no one else would; then Robina joined him, and they had proceeded through the town without a syllable ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

... of the movement became the most active of missionaries. Without any fixed parishes they wandered from place to place, proclaiming their new doctrine in every pulpit to which they were admitted, and they speedily awoke a passionate enthusiasm and a bitter hostility in ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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