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Definition of Bitter
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- make bitter
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"
- expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears"
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
- harsh or corrosive in tone; "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 about political assassination, talk-show hosts
- one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine
- very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow"
- extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
Hyponyms: acerbity, acridity, acridness
Pertainyms: biting, cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating
Derivational Morphology: bitterness
| Language Translations: | |||
| Albanian: hidhur | Bosnian: gorak | ||
| Bulgarian: горчив and циничен | Catalan: amarg | ||
| Croatian: gorak and ogorčen | Danish: bitter | ||
| Dutch: bitter and verbitterd | Finnish: katkera and kitkerä | ||
| French: amer | German: bitter and verbittert | ||
| Hungarian: keserű | Italian: amaro | ||
| Latin: amarus | Polish: gorzki | ||
| Portuguese: amargo | Romanian: amar | ||
| Russian: горький | Slovak: horký | ||
| Slovene: grenak and zagrenjen | Spanish: amargado and amargo | ||
| Swedish: bitter | Telugu: చేదు | ||
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