bitter
IPA: bˈɪtɝ
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
verb
- To make bitter.
adjective
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- Harsh, piercing or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Cynical and resentful.
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Examples of "bitter" in Sentences
- The rest is just a bitter tirade.
- The cucumber fruit is incredibly bitter.
- It helps to explain the bitterness of the song.
- It was bitter in taste and slightly malodorous.
- Bitterness and coldness are the scourges of humanity.
- It was bitter in taste, thin and slightly malodorous.
- It was a bitter episode in the career of the sculptor.
- It shows the bitterness and the tragedy of his life there.
- It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- The memory of the harsh and bitter struggle to build the continent is too near.
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