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bitterness
[bit-er-nis]
noun
a harsh, acrid taste that is one of the four basic taste sensations; a taste that is not sour, sweet, or salty.
The beer’s initial flavor profile is a faint bitterness, with a lingering, slightly cloying sweetness.
a feeling of pain or distress.
The bitter herbs at a Passover Seder are meant to remind us of the bitterness of slavery.
a feeling of antagonism, hostility, or resentfulness.
There was no shortage of people expressing frustration and bitterness about the slow pace of the relief efforts.
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- overbitterness noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of bitterness1
Example Sentences
He said he understood the "bitterness and the hurt" of the Chagossian community in the UK, who were "forcibly deported from Diego Garcia and who wish to return and will not be able to return".
The butter lettuce brought something unexpected, a flavor gently tea-like, just a whisper of grass, with a bitterness like almond skin.
In an interview with AFP ahead of her hearing at Kuibyshevsky District Court on Friday, she said she felt "bitterness" and "hurt" over the fate of her country.
“Deborah has hung on to rejection and bitterness and anger and pain,†Smart says.
But all acknowledge the bilateral bitterness provoked by Brexit is no more.
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