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Bitter meaning
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
Synonyms of Bitter
Using Bitter
- The main meaning on this page is: Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). | Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging. | Hateful or hostile.
- Useful related words include: bitterness, sulphurous, sulfurous, caustic.
- In the example corpus, bitter often appears in combinations such as: the bitter, in bitter, bitter and.
Example sentences (20)
Traditionally, a low percentage of bitter almonds (10–20%) is added to the ingredients, which gives the cookies their bitter taste (commercially, apricot kernels are used as a substitute for bitter almonds).
If you are dealing with bitter cucumbers in your garden, another reason rather than having higher levels of cucurbitacin would be that your cukes didn't get enough water this year, which also causes them to be bitter.
It was a bitter defeat for what seemed to be one of the greatest teams in Cleveland baseball history, but instead went down as one of the franchise’s most bitter postseason failures.
Steve tastes his bitter melon and finds it very bitter.
The Bitter Pinot — a cocktail which falls somewhere in between the Negroni, Americano and Milano-Torino — calls for bitter Campari, Azaline sweet vermouth, a touch of sloe gin and a splash of soda water.
It's a bitter obituary, but it's not Kathleen Dehmlow bitter.
See The Amazing Benefits Of Bitter Goard, Also Known As Bitter.
Bitter juries are a thing and being sequestered in the jury house with no one to talk to but other bitter jurors doesn't allow time to alleviate that hurt for some.
So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter.
Those who are bitter will be bitter for 12 years.
Maror (bitter herbs) The blessing for the eating of the maror (bitter herbs) is recited and then it is eaten.
Subjects who have inherited two copies of the "sensitive" gene find turnips twice as bitter as those who have two "insensitive" genes, and thus may find turnips and other cyanoglucoside-containing foods intolerably bitter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter And made her batter bitter.
The so-called sweet (actually not bitter) cultivars can produce as little as 20 milligrams of cyanide (CN) per kilogram of fresh roots, whereas bitter ones may produce more than 50 times as much (1 g/kg).
After he defeats both of his older versions, Scott manages to see who he might become in the future - a bitter, angry man - and promises that things can change from there.
And it’s a shame because some had everything they needed to go all the way, but alas, they ended up being bitter disappointments.
And that aid measure, mired in bitter clashes between the White House and far-right Republicans, can’t make it through Congress as it is.
And then came the most bitter and ironic failure for Staley and his defense.
An exceptional example of a premium strength Golden Bitter style ale.
Around 100,000 PCS members will strike on Budget Day – March 15 – with the increasingly bitter dispute remaining deadlocked.
Common combinations with bitter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bitter 29×
- in bitter 18×
- bitter and 15×
- bitter rivals 13×
- and bitter 11×
- of bitter 10×
- was bitter 9×
- bitter pill 7×
- their bitter 6×
- his bitter 6×