Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Bitterness.
Wiktionary
- n. bitterness
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Bitterness.
Etymologies
- Latin amaritudo, from amarus bitter: compare Old French amaritude. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Solomon’s mind was again busy with the problem; and on his uncle urging him to make himself agreeable, and to speak in simpler language, as nothing was so hateful to women as a bookworm, he replied — “I never intend to marry, sir; and I should be glad if this declaration would satisfy you, because I wish to avoid ambages; not that I am deterred by fear of matrimonial amaritude.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘amaritude’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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I do itude
words - real or unreal - ending in -itude: An it-ode as opposed to an itune???
worditude, habitude, lippitude, vicissitude, vastitude, unitude, spissitude, lenitude, latitude, lenticitude, locticitude, lentitude and 68 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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Gimme Some -tude
Words ending in -tude.
platitude, attitude, altitude, exactitude, solicitude, multitude, latitude, longitude, fortitude, gratitude, pulchritude, desuetude and 68 more...
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