bitterness
/ˈbɪtənəs/
bitterness noun: the quality of having a bitter taste.
Noun
bitterness (countable and uncountable, plural bitternesses)
- The quality of having a bitter taste.
- The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
- the bitterness of his words
- She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.
- Synonyms:
- acrimony, gall, rancor, resentment, bile
- The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
- Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.
- Harsh cold.
- The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.
bitterness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bitterness in Hindi
- bitterness, acidity
- कड़वापन kaṛvāpan, कड़वाहट kaṛvāhaṭ
bitterness in Tamil
- கசப்புத்தன்மை, கடுமை
bitterness in Marathi
- कटुता, कडवटपणा
bitterness in Urdu
- bitterness, acidity
- کڑوا پن kaṛvā pan
- bitterness, acrimony, unpleasantness
- تلخی talxī
More languagesFewer languages
- bitterness in Bengali
- তিক্ততা, কটুতা
- bitterness in Telugu
- చేదు cēdu
- bitterness in Malayalam
- കയ്പ്പ് kayppŭ
- bitterness in Kannada
- ಕಹಿ kahi
- bitterness in Punjabi
- ਤੁਰਸ਼ੀ turśī
- bitterness in Gujarati
- કડવાશ kaḍvāś
- bitterness in Odia
- ତିକ୍ତତା, କଟୁତା
- bitterness in Nepali
- कटुता
- bitterness in Tagalog
- pait
- bitterness in Arabic
- مَرَارَة marāra
- bitterness in Thai
- ความขม kwaam-kǒm
Examples of bitterness in a sentence
- You've got to cook out the spices to get rid of the bitterness.
- Some of her father's ways still triggered flutters of that old burning resentment in her. She spoke of him with a flutter of her bitterness that others could sense.
- He counseled his daughter to resist the lure of hatred and bitterness.
Synonyms of bitterness
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Antonyms
Forms of bitterness
| plural | bitternesses |
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Origin of bitterness
From Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Old English biternes (“bitterness; grief”), equivalent to bitter + -ness.
Questions about bitterness
- What does bitterness mean?
- Bitterness means the quality of having a bitter taste.
- What is bitterness in Hindi?
- Bitterness in Hindi is कड़वापन (kaṛvāpan), कड़वाहट (kaṛvāhaṭ). See Bitterness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bitterness?
- Bitterness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bitterness?
- Bitterness is pronounced /ˈbɪtənəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bitterness?
- The plural of bitterness is bitternesses.
Words near bitterness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bitterness (page history and authors); कड़वापन (Hindi) (page history and authors); bitterness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bitterness (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); تلخی (Urdu) (page history and authors); bitterness (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ಕಹಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਤੁਰਸ਼ੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કડવાશ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); bitterness (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bitterness (Nepali, 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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