Bitterness
[bɪtənəs] or ['bɪtɚnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a rough and bitter manner.
(noun.) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
(n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
(n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bitter taste.[2]. Spleen, gall, rankling, rancor, heart-burning, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, spite, enmity, ill-will.[3]. Asperity, acerbity, severity, harshness, acrimony, ill-temper, bad blood.[4]. Distress, pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, heaviness, regret, despondency.
Checked by Amy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ANTIPATHY]
Checker: Rudolph
Examples
- The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But there arose no clamour in his breast, only a bitterness that was visionary in itself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The heart knoweth its own bitterness, said Miss Ophelia, gravely. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Lady Crackenbury read the paragraph in bitterness of spirit and discoursed to her followers about the airs which that woman was giving herself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yet as the laugh died, a kind of wrath smote me, and then bitterness followed: it was the rock struck, and Meribah's waters gushing out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; and that may be the case here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- His tone was cold and ironical; its bitterness but reflecting the terrible disappointment he had suffered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She spoke with a bitterness of tone which satisfied me that the scandal of the Moonstone had been in some way recalled to her mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They became Protestants as the struggle grew in bitterness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Will's certainty as the carriage grew smaller in the distance, had much more bitterness in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Theodore