Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being bitter, in any of the senses of that word.
Wiktionary
- n. the quality of having a bitter taste
- n. the quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
- n. A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
- n. Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- n. the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- n. a rough and bitter manner
- n. the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
Etymologies
- bitter + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And as my bitterness began with you, in the end the bitterness is all that is left.”
“He later learned that when cooked with the peel, the bitterness is avoided.”
“Diane your bitterness is showing and it is not attractive.”
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“My days in the forest drains all the bitterness from the grind and restores the soul of the hunter gatherer.”
“So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature.”
“It was horrible, no doubt, but I didn't wallow in bitterness, blame or victimhood.”
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“And bitterness is just such a wasted time and emotion.”
“It's intensely anise flavored and the wormwood bitterness is pleasingly apparent at the start.”
“OK, so some might think this is residual Obama bitterness from the primary.”
“There will be heartache and bitterness from the children and other relatives, for years to come.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bitterness’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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-isms
fascism, anarchism, satanism, racism, racialism, nordicism, nazism, socialism, catholicism, national socialism, paganism, hinduism and 67 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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My Least Favourite Words
morose, neurotic, paperwork, ruminate, litigation, gloom, depression, despair, dictator, politics, procrastination, reorganisation and 72 more...
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minionmaster's Words
contemplating, slightly, shackles, wristguards, kneepads, serenity, reactant, lithium, argon, oxygen, dire, immense and 82 more...
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