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bitterly

Syllables: bit·ter·lyUK/ˈbɪtəli//ˈbɪtəɹli/

bitterly adverb: in a bitter manner.

Adverb

bitterly (comparative more bitterly, superlative most bitterly)

  1. In a bitter manner.
    • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    • Heidi threw herself down beside Clara's chair and began to cry bitterly.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 91
  2. Extremely.
    • On a bitterly cold evening at Wembley, the Lionesses knew only victory would be enough to keep alive Team GB's hopes of competing in Paris.2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport

bitterly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

bitterly in Hindi

bitterly
ज़ार-ज़ार zār-zār

bitterly in Tamil

கடுமையாக, கடுந்துயருடன்

bitterly in Urdu

bitterly
زار زار zār-zār

bitterly in Bengali

তিক্তভাবে
More languagesFewer languages
bitterly in Gujarati
કડવાશથી
bitterly in Odia
ତିକ୍ତ ଭାବେ, ତିକ୍ତତାପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ଭାବେ

Examples of bitterly in a sentence

  • The lonely millionaire reflected bitterly on the unpurchasability of true love.
  • “What am I supposed to buy with that?” rages Sick Boy bitterly later.
  • The weather was atrocious, with bitterly cold wind and cutting sleet—rather appropriate, considering Aunt Fonteyn's temperament.

All 32 example sentences with bitterly

Forms of bitterly

comparativemore bitterly
superlativemost bitterly

Origin of bitterly

From Middle English bitterli, biterli, biterliche, from Old English biterlīċe, bitterlīċe (“bitterly”), equivalent to bitter + -ly. Cognate with German Low German bitterlik (“bitterly”), German bitterlich (“bitterly”), Swedish bitterligen (“bitterly”).

Questions about bitterly

What does bitterly mean?
Bitterly means in a bitter manner.
What is bitterly in Hindi?
Bitterly in Hindi is ज़ार-ज़ार (zār-zār). See Bitterly meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bitterly?
Bitterly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce bitterly?
Bitterly is pronounced /ˈbɪtəɹli/ (US).

Words near bitterly in the dictionary

  1. bitterleaf tree
  2. bitterless
  3. Bitterley
  4. bitterling
  5. bitterlings
  6. bitterly
  7. Bitterman
  8. Bittermans
  9. bittermelon
  10. bittermelons
  11. bittern

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bitterly (page history and authors); ज़ार-ज़ार (Hindi) (page history and authors); bitterly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); زار زار (Urdu) (page history and authors); bitterly (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bitterly (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bitterly (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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