bitter
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- noun
- /ˈbɪtər/
:
amargor
- Well, I think babies are averse to bitter things, but as we.
And I love candy that is sour, salty, sweet, bitter, and spicy.
- And I love candy that is sour, salty, sweet, bitter, and spicy.
- You are born like in sugar and dislike in bitter.
Examples
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It's been proven like sweet, sour, salty, bitter, bitter, right.
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Someone call an orange because it wants its bitter taste back.
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It's like sour and burnt and bitter and bad.
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And contrast the basic taste, sweet, bitter, sour, salty and umami.
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So there's beef, there's bitter, there's bitter beef, right?
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P116 Salt, Sour, Sweet, Bitter—these four savors a body accepts, but how often foolish men misapply the fragile cup consigned to their use.
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The coffee was too bitter for my taste, and I added sugar to balance it out.
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She winced at the bitter flavor of the dark chocolate that was almost too intense to enjoy.
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To enhance the dish, a touch of bitter greens was added, providing contrast to the other flavors.
Synonyms
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A sharp unpleasant taste found in foods like black coffee
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A strong, biting taste or smell that stings the nose
A strong, bitter smell or taste that burns the nose
A strong sharp taste or smell that feels unpleasant
A sharp, sour taste that makes your mouth pucker
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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Keep doing something until it is completely finished, even when it is very hard
Compounds
- Informal
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The final, most difficult part of something that you keep doing until it ends
A hickory tree with leaves that have seven or nine small parts and thin shelled nuts that taste very bitter
A type of orange tree that produces small sour fruit and is used for grafting and marmalade
- Specialized
A hickory-like tree that grows in the southern United States with many narrow leaves and bitter nuts
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A tree in the eastern United States with leaves of seven or nine small parts and thin, very bitter nuts
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A white salt taken by mouth to relieve heartburn and constipation and sometimes given by injection to prevent seizures
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A pale mineral containing calcium and magnesium that people use to make ceramics, get magnesium and improve soil
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A small shrub with large pink sepals that people use as medicine for fever
An oil from bitter almonds that people use to add an almond smell or taste to food and perfume
- Indian
A type of cassava with bitter roots that contain poison and must be processed before eating
A small wild plant with divided leaves and tiny white, pink or purple flowers often in lawns
How Bitter
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bitter (noun, taste) The word bitter for a sharp, not-sweet taste comes from an old word like bite meaning 'to bite', because a bitter taste feels like a small 'bite' in the mouth, and that is why we call such flavours 'bitter'.