Meaning of bitterness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of having a bitter taste.
   countable, uncountable
2. bitter, sour (having an acrid taste)
3. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
   countable, uncountable
4. The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
   countable, uncountable
5. first-person singular present indicative of amargar
6. Harsh cold.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the bitterness of his words”

“She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.”

“She suspected that during the summer her father had mentioned Brian’s windfall to Billy and that father and son had then traded snidenesses and bitternesses about the W—— Corporation and bourgeois Robin and leisure-class Brian.”

“Speaking of the guest list, though, it is most disappointing to find some of the third tier European princelings unable to hide their bitterness at being NFI.”

“Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.”

“The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.”

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