Bitterness - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a rough and bitter manner (syn: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice)
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth (syn: bitter)
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste (syn: bitter)
Extra examples
Cocoa beans have a bitter flavor.
The medicine had a bitter aftertaste.
We were struck by the bitter irony of the situation.
His betrayal had made her bitter.
The cocktail recipe called for a dash of bitters.
...time had cauterized his bitterness, and he was willing to let bygones be bygones...
The meeting ended with bitterness and recrimination.
In her bitterness she felt that all rejoicing was mockery.
You percolate the coffee through this special paper, and it takes out the bitterness.
His feelings on the matter have ranged from bitterness to hope.
There was a touch of bitterness in what he said.
All the bitterness of the last two years seemed to boil over.
Drury harboured bitterness in his bosom.
He told his story without anger or bitterness.
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