bitterness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Old English biternes (“bitterness; grief”), equivalent to bitter + -ness.
Base: bitter
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: bitternesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of having a bitter taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the bitterness of his words
She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.
It is now time for the opposition to the Annexation of Texas to cease, all further agitation of the waters of bitterness and strife, at least in connexion with this question,–even though it may perhaps be required of us as a necessary condition of the freedom of our institutions, that we must live on for ever in a state of unpausing struggle and excitement upon some subject of party division or other.
She suspected that during the summer her father had mentioned Brian’s windfall to Billy and that father and son had then traded snidenesses and bitternesses about the W—— Corporation and bourgeois Robin and leisure-class Brian.
Speaking of the guest list, though, it is most disappointing to find some of the third tier European princelings unable to hide their bitterness at being NFI.
gloss: The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.
gloss: Harsh cold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.
Synonyms: acerbicness
acridity
acridness
acerbity
alkalinity
astringency
bitterness
wormwood
Antonyms: sweetness
Related words: bitter
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَرَارَة
roman: marāra
lang: Aromanian
word: amãrãciuni
lang: Aromanian
word: amãreatsã
lang: Asturian
word: amargor
lang: Asturian
word: amargura
lang: Bangi
word: bololo
lang: Bulgarian
word: горчивина
roman: gorčivina
lang: Catalan
word: amargor
lang: Catalan
word: amargura
lang: Catalan
word: amarguesa
lang: Cebuano
word: kapait
lang: Czech
word: hořkost
lang: Esperanto
word: amareco
lang: Esperanto
word: amaro
lang: Finnish
word: kitkeryys
lang: Franco-Provençal
word: amaritúdina
lang: French
word: amertume
lang: Galician
word: amargor
lang: Galician
word: amargura
lang: Galician
word: amargueza
lang: Galician
word: amarguranza
lang: German
word: Bitterkeit
lang: German
word: Bitternis
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐌴𐌹
roman: baitrei
lang: Greek
word: πίκρα
roman: píkra
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πικρία
roman: pikría
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πικρότης
roman: pikrótēs
lang: Hebrew
word: מרירות
roman: merirut
lang: Hungarian
word: keserűség
lang: Italian
word: amarezza
lang: Japanese
word: 苦味
roman: nigami
lang: Kapampangan
word: pait
lang: Korean
word: 쓴맛
roman: sseunmat
lang: Korean
word: 고미
roman: gomi
lang: Central Kurdish
word: تاڵی
roman: tallî
lang: Latin
word: acerbitās
lang: Latin
word: amāritās
lang: Latin
word: amāritiēs
lang: Latin
word: amāritūdō
lang: Latin
word: amārulentia
lang: Latin
word: austēritās
lang: Lingala
word: bololo
lang: Macedonian
word: горчина
roman: gorčina
lang: Malayalam
word: കയ്പ്പ്
roman: kayppŭ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bitterhet
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Bettaniss
lang: Polish
word: gorzkość
lang: Polish
word: gorycz
lang: Portuguese
word: amargura
lang: Romanian
word: amărăciune
lang: Romanian
word: amăreală
lang: Russian
word: го́речь
roman: górečʹ
lang: Sardinian
word: rangigùmene
lang: Slovak
word: horkosť
lang: Spanish
word: amargo
lang: Spanish
word: amargura
lang: Spanish
word: amargor
lang: Swedish
word: bitterhet
lang: Tagalog
word: pait
lang: Tausug
word: pait
lang: Telugu
word: చేదు
roman: cēdu
lang: Thai
word: ความขม
roman: kwaam-kǒm
lang: Turkish
word: acılık
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آجیلق
roman: acılık
lang: Ukrainian
word: гірко́та́
roman: hirkótá
lang: Ukrainian
word: гі́ркість
roman: hírkistʹ