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bitter

UK /ˈbɪt.ə/US /ˈbɪ.tɚ/

adjective 4
noun 4
adverb 1
verb 1
forms 7
phrases 2

adjective4

•
(of food or a drink) tasting sharp and bad in the way that many medicines do
- The coffee tasted bitter.
•
Cynical and resentful.
- I've been bitter ever since that defeat.
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Hateful or hostile.
- They're bitter enemies.
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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 […]. — 1999

noun4

A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
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A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters, "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters. — 1773
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[in compounds] (informal) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- However, 16-bitters are far more expensive than the 8-bit variety. And, unfortunately, have only a handful of business applications software packages that really take advantage of them. — 1983
A turn of a cable about the bitts.

adverb1

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To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.
- A dynamic personality in the outfit, he met his death in the bitter-fought engagements in Venafro. — 2012

verb1

(no longer used) To make bitter.

forms

bittered · bittering · bitters · bitterer · more bitter · bitterest · most bitter

Phrases with bitter

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