adjective. Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant.

adjective. Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh.

adjective. Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear.

adjective. Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity.

adjective. Resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment.

adjective. Marked by resentment or cynicism.

adverb. In an intense or harsh way; bitterly.

transitive verb. To make bitter.

noun. That which is bitter.

noun. A bitter, usually alcoholic liquid made with herbs or roots and used in cocktails or as a tonic.

noun. A sharp-tasting beer made with hops.

To make bitter; give a bitter taste to; embitter.

noun. Nautical, a turn of a cable round the bitts.

noun. An old form of bittern.

Having a harsh taste, like that of wormwood or quinine.

Hence Unpalatable; hard to swallow, literally or figuratively: as, a bitter pill; a bitter lesson.

Hard to be borne; grievous; distressful; calamitous: as, a bitter moment; bitter fate.

Causing pain or smart to the sense of feeling; piercing: painful; biting: as, bitter cold; “the bitter blast,”

Harsh, as words; reproachful; sarcastic; cutting; sharp: as,“bitter taunts,”

Cherishing or exhibiting animosity, hate, anger, or severity; cruel; severe; harsh; stern: as, “bitterest enmity,” Shak., Cor., iv. 4; “bitter enemies,”

Evincing or betokening intense pain or suffering: as, a bitter cry.

noun. That which is bitter; bitterness.

noun. Specifically A bitter medicine, as a bitter bark or root, or an infusion made from it. See bitters.

noun. AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

noun. that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

transitive verb. To make bitter.

noun. Any substance that is bitter. See bitters.

adjective. Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops.

adjective. Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe.

adjective. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.

adjective. Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent.

adjective. Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.

adjective. See Colocynth.

adjective. undefined

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adjective. a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. Cardamine amara.

adjective. tale earth; calcined magnesia.

adjective. a class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics.

adjective. Epsom salts; magnesium sulphate.

adjective. a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia.

adjective. to the last extremity, however calamitous.

adjective. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance)

adjective. Harsh, piercing or stinging

adjective. Hateful or hostile

adjective. Cynical and resentful

noun. A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

noun. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.

noun. A turn of a cable about the bitts.

verb. To make bitter.

noun. the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

"Absinthites or Wormwood wine, a nauseously bitter medicament then much in use; and this being evidently {242} the _bitter potion of Eysell_ in the poet's sonnet, was certainly the nauseous draught proposed to be taken by Hamlet among the other extravagant feats as tokens of love."

sweeten  

acrimonious  bitter ale  bitter ash  bitter end  bitter principles  

hostile  intolerable  painful  resentful  sorrowful  

bitter pill to swallow  brought up to a bitter  

ale  change taste  gustatory perception  gustatory sensation  taste  

Ritter  Sitter  aglitter  chitter  critter  

furious  hot  keen  serious  terrible  

Siberian  acerb  acerbate  acerbic  acid  

bitters  

bittered  bittering  bitters