bitter
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- noun
- /ˈbɪtər/
- Well, I think babies are averse to bitter things, but as we.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd 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
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A strong, bitter smell or taste that burns the nose
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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
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The final, most difficult part of something that you keep doing until it ends
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An oil from bitter almonds that people use to add an almond smell or taste to food and perfume
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A type of orange tree that produces small sour fruit and is used for grafting and marmalade
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A type of cassava with bitter roots that contain poison and must be processed before eating
A hickory tree with leaves that have seven or nine small parts and thin shelled nuts that taste very bitter
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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
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'.