bitterness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.

   The bitterness of his words.

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.

   Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.

3. 3
   noun

   Harsh cold.

   The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.

4. 4
   noun

   a rough and bitter manner

From Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Old English biternes (“bitterness; grief”), equivalent to bitter + -ness.

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