If you usually drink your coffee with lots of cream and sugar in it, you might be surprised at how bitter plain black coffee can taste. Bitter means "having a sharp or harsh flavor."
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Noun
the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
Noun
the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
Noun
English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
Verb
make bitter
Adjective S.
marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"
Adjective S.
proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"
Adjective S.
expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears"
Adjective S.
causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
Adjective S.
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
Adjective S.
one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine
Adjective S.
very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow"
Adverb
extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
n.
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v. t.
Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of
wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as
aloes.
v. t.
Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe;
as, a bitter cold day.
v. t.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the
mind; calamitous; poignant.
v. t.
Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh;
stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
v. t.
Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
n.
Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
v. t.
To make bitter.
Bitter
Bitter
It is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God.4.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.5.
The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage.
Bitter
Bitter
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Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops;
Any substance that is bitter. See
To make bitter.
Usage Examples
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
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Other Usage ExamplesCan advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
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