bitter
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
Adjective 4 meanings
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
“The coffee tasted bitter.”
Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
Hateful or hostile.
“They're bitter enemies.”
Cynical and resentful.
“I've been bitter ever since that defeat.”
Adverb 1 meaning
To an intense or severe degree; bitterly.
Noun 4 meanings
A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
A turn of a cable about the bitts.
A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
Etymology
From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively.
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BITTER at a glance
BITTER has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + I 1 + T 1 + T 1 + E 1 + R 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,918 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bitter
All rhymes- AFTER8
- BETTER8
- WATER8
- LATER5
- MATTER8
- CENTER8
- CHARACTER16
- DAUGHTER13
- MINISTER10
- COMPUTER14
- LETTER6
- SISTER6
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- BETTER8
- BUTTER8
- LITTER6
- BATTER8
- HITTER9
- BITTEN8
- SITTER6
- FITTER9
- RITTER6
- JITTER13
- WITTER9
- PITTER8
- TITTER6
- BITTED9
- BIFTER11
- BISTER8
- BITSER8
- BITTOR8
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