bitter

Forms

1.Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- This coffee is too bitter.
2.Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- It was at the end of February, […] when the world was cold, and a bitter wind howled down the moors […].
3.Hateful or hostile.
- Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Tottenham have not won in the Premier League at Emirates Stadium for 12 years, with Arsenal losing just one of their last 29 home league games against their bitter rivals.
- He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
4.Cynical and resentful.
- I've been bitter ever since that defeat.

1.To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.
- The dream of it ached, bitter and sharp, for that was all it was.
- A dynamic personality in the outfit, he met his death in the bitter-fought engagements in Venafro.
- After that bitter-spoken warning, talk ceased outside […].

1.A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
2.A turn of a cable about the bitts.
3.A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰidrós

Proto-Germanic *bitraz

Proto-West Germanic *bitr

Old English biter

Middle English bittre

English bitter