bitterness.
The quality of having a bitter taste.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bitternesse, biternesse, from Old English biternes (“bitterness; grief”), equivalent to bitter + -ness.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.