bitter
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- adjective
- /ˈbɪtər/
:
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- The coffee was too bitter to enjoy without adding sugar.
- a bitter taste
- sweet and bitter
- a bitter medicine
The journey that you went on involved a bitter liquid that you ingested.
- The journey that you went on involved a bitter liquid that you ingested.
- And then maybe there's also a mommy sweet, salt, bitter and sour.
- He thought that because things that taste bitter are sharp, that the bitter molecules were sharp.
- So genetic six days have shown the threshold is there for bitter taste.
- This variety does not produce bitter leaves, it does not produce spicy leaves.
- So one way is bitter taste.
- But we've we've come to enjoy things like Rocket, which has got a hot and bitter taste.
- Lovely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really like that. You don't feel because, you know, green tea can be the bitter, but this doesn't taste bitter at all.
Examples
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A world of orphans will grow up with the bitter taste of hatred on their tongues.
Fiction book (1992) -
My tears taste even more bitter.
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Much like how bitter medicine can be good for us, I keep still and listen.
Academic text (2015) -
Then she made a face as if there was something bitter on her tongue.
Academic text (2007) -
His coffee has gotten cold, cold and bitter, the milk gone sour.
Fiction book (1992) -
And that's because it just gets super bitter from the heat.
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The room stank of bitter medicine.
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There's medicine in it, which is why it may taste more bitter than usual.
Fiction book (1990) -
I pretended to drink the tea, but it was bitter and raw, like grass.
Fiction book (1992) -
Being unacclimated, the first sip was bitter, a strong punch to the palate.
Synonyms
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Having a strong, sharp smell or taste that can be unpleasant
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6.7
A strong, unpleasant sharp taste or smell
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7.8
A sharp sour or bitter taste that makes your mouth pucker
Having a sour or bitter taste that feels sharp
A sharp sour taste like lemon or grapefruit
Slightly sour in taste or tone
A strong, slightly sour taste like in aged cheese or salad dressing
Being slightly sharp and unpleasant in taste or feeling
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
- Specialized
A tree in the eastern United States with leaves of seven or nine small parts and thin, very bitter nuts
- Specialized
A white salt taken by mouth to relieve heartburn and constipation and sometimes given by injection to prevent seizures
- Specialized
A pale mineral containing calcium and magnesium that people use to make ceramics, get magnesium and improve soil
- Specialized
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 (adj, taste) The adjective bitter comes from the root behind bite, meaning 'to bite', so something described as bitter gives a sharp, not-sweet sensation in the mouth, which connects the old idea to the word we use today.