bitter
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰidrós Proto-Germanic *bitraz Proto-West Germanic *bitr Old English biter Middle English bittre English bitter From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).
Definitions
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- The coffee tasted bitter.
- A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- It was at the end of February, […] when the world was cold, and a bitter wind howled down the moors […].
Hateful or hostile.
- They're bitter enemies.
- Tottenham have not won in the Premier League at Emirates Stadium for 12 years, with Arsenal losing just one of their last 29 home league games against their bitter rivals.
- He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
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Cynical and resentful.
- I've been bitter ever since that defeat.
To an intense or severe degree
To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.
- A dynamic personality in the outfit, he met his death in the bitter-fought engagements in Venafro.
- After that bitter-spoken warning, talk ceased outside […].
- The dream of it ached, bitter and sharp, for that was all it was.
A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters, "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters.
A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
A turn of a cable about the bitts.
To make bitter.
- bittered with the hop
A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of…
A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- However, 16-bitters are far more expensive than the 8-bit variety. And, unfortunately, have only a handful of business applications software packages that really take advantage of them.
A surname from Dutch or German.
The neighborhood
- synonymacrid
- synonymcaustic
- synonymacerb
- synonymacerbic
- synonymbitter
- synonymbittersome
- synonymsharp
- synonymEnglish pale ale
- synonymEPA
- antonymoptimisticantonym(s) of “cynical and resentful”
- antonymsweet
- neighborbitter end
- neighborbitterness
- neighborgustable
- neighborcoffeelike
- neighborhoppy
- neighborquiniferous
- neighborbitterish
Derived
bitter African daisy, bitter albizia, bitter almond, bitter aloes, bitter apple, bitter bark, bitter bean, bitter bolete, bitter bossie, bitter bracket, bitterbrush, bitter buchu, [pl=s, bitterbush, bitter cherry, bitter chocolate, bitter coco, bitter cornsalad, bittercress, bitter-cress, bitter cryptandra, bitter cucumber, bitter dock, bitter dogbane, bitter drumstick tree, bitter fleabane, bitter forest grape, bitterful, bitter funnel, bitter ganna, bitter gooseberry, bitter gourd, bitter grape, bitter herbs, bitter hickory, bitter hymenoxys, bitterish, bitter kambro, bitter karoo, bitter karree · +70 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at bitter. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at bitter. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at bitter
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA