Nouns (5)
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bitter
n. English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
bitterness, bitter
n. the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
bitter, bitterness
n. the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
Verbs (1)
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bitter
v. make bitter
Adverbs (4)
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piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter
adv. extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
Adjectives (6)
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bitter
adj. proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"
bitter
adj. very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow"
biting, bitter
adj. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
acrimonious, bitter
adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"
Fuzzynyms (55)
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coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness
n. the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious
adj. discontented as toward authority
razor-sharp
adj. as sharp as a razor
acrimonious, bitter
adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
saturnine
adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
chill, chilly
adj. uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
heated
adj. marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"
rancorous
adj. showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley
hateful, mean
adj. characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
vixenish
adj. shrewish and malicious; "a vixenish old woman"
malevolent
adj. wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"
acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic
adj. 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 and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"
saturnine
adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
biting, bitter
adj. causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
razor-sharp
adj. as sharp as a razor
barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Synonyms (83)
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suffering
adj. troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"
bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)
adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick
adj. full of sorrow
unhappy, saddening, doleful
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping
adj. showing sorrow
elegiac
adj. expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending
adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
lamentable
adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
lugubrious
adj. excessively mournful
mournful, plaintive
adj. expressing sorrow
woebegone, woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
sad
adj. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable
adj. used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence"
unbearable, unendurable
adj. incapable of being put up with; "an intolerable degree of sentimentality"
acold
adj. of persons; feeling cold; "Poor Tom's acold"- Shakespeare
algid
adj. chilly; "a person who is algid is marked by prostration and has cold clammy skin and low blood pressure"
ice-cold
adj. as cold as ice
bleak, cutting, raw
adj. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
refrigerated
adj. made or kept cold by refrigeration; "keep the milk refrigerated"; "a refrigerated truck"
shivering, chilled
adj. vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
nippy
adj. a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese"
frore
adj. very cold; "whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet"
frosty, rimed, rimy
adj. covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner
iced
adj. "iced tea"
sharp, keen, piercing, toothed
adj. as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
chilly, parky
adj. appreciably or disagreeably cold
refrigerant, refrigerating
adj. causing cooling or freezing; "a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide"
shivery
adj. cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather"
stone-cold
adj. completely cold; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold"
unheated, unwarmed
adj. not having been heated or warmed; "an unheated room"; "unwarmed rolls"
aggravated, provoked
adj. incited, especially deliberately, to anger; "aggravated by passive resistance"; "the provoked animal attacked the child"
angered, enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened
adj. marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd"
choleric, irascible
adj. characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"
huffy, mad, sore
adj. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"
indignant, incensed, outraged, umbrageous
adj. angered at something unjust or wrong; "an indignant denial"; "incensed at the judges' unfairness"; "a look of outraged disbelief"; "umbrageous at the loss of their territory"
wrathful, wroth, wrothful
adj. vehemently incensed and condemnatory; "they trembled before the wrathful queen"; "but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation"
smoldering, smouldering
adj. showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel
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