bitterness
noun/ˈbɪtənəs/UK
Etymology
From Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Old English biternes (“bitterness; grief”), equivalent to bitter + -ness.
- inherited from bitternesse
Definitions
The quality of having a bitter taste.
The quality of feeling bitter
The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
- the bitterness of his words
- She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.
The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
- Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.
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Harsh cold.
- The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.
The neighborhood
- synonymacerbity
- synonymalkalinity
- synonymastringency
- synonymbitterness
- synonymwormwood
- antonymsweetness
- neighborbitter
- neighborflavour
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bitterness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA