Synonyms for bitterness
bit·ter·ness

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1. bitternessnoun

   the quality of having a bitter taste

   Synonyms:
   acerbicness, acridness, acridity

2. bitternessnoun

   the quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment

   Synonyms:
   acrimony, rancor, resentment, gall, rancour

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1. bitterness

   Acerbity is a sharpness, with a touch of bitterness, which may arise from momentary annoyance or habitual impatience; asperity is keener and more pronounced, denoting distinct irritation or vexation; in speech asperity is often manifested by the tone of voice rather than by the words that are spoken. Acrimony in speech or temper is like a corrosive acid; it springs from settled character or deeply rooted feeling of aversion or unkindness. One might speak with momentary asperity to his child, but not with acrimony, unless estrangement had begun. Malignity is the extreme of settled ill intent; virulence is an envenomed hostility. Virulence of speech is a quality in language that makes the language seem as if exuding poison. Virulence is outspoken; malignity may be covered with smooth and courteous phrase. We say intense virulence, deep malignity. Severity is always painful, and may be terrible, but carries ordinarily the implication, true or false, of justice. Compare ANGER; BITTER; ENMITY.

   Synonyms:
   acerbity, acrimony, asperity, causticity, harshness, malignity, moroseness, severity, sharpness, sourness, tartness, unkindness, virulence

   Antonyms:
   amiability, courtesy, gentleness, good nature, kindness, mildness, smoothness, sweetness

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1. resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancournoun

   a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

   Synonyms:
   acrimony, saddle sore, rancour, impudence, freshness, insolence, rancor, bile, thorniness, tartness, acerbity, resentment, cheekiness, impertinence, gall, jaundice, crust, bitter

2. bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorninessnoun

   a rough and bitter manner

   Synonyms:
   acrimony, sourness, bristliness, sour, rancor, thorniness, tartness, acerbity, resentment, prickliness, spininess, gall, icterus, jaundice, bitter, rancour

3. bitter, bitternessnoun

   the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

   Synonyms:
   rancour, rancor, thorniness, acrimony, jaundice, bitter, resentment, tartness, acerbity, gall

4. bitterness, bitternoun

   the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

   Synonyms:
   rancour, rancor, thorniness, acrimony, jaundice, bitter, resentment, tartness, acerbity, gall

Matched Categories

1. • Taste
   • Taste Property

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1. bitternessnoun

   Synonyms:
   bitter taste

2. bitternessnoun

   Synonyms:
   spleen, gall, rankling, rancor, heart-burning, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, spite, enmity, ill-will

3. bitternessnoun

   Synonyms:
   asperity, acerbity, severity, harshness, acrimony, ill-temper, bad blood

4. bitternessnoun

   Synonyms:
   distress, pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, heaviness, regret, despondency

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1. bitternessnoun

   Synonyms:
   acridity, acerbity, gall, wormwood, poignancy, intensity, severity, rancor, malice, malignity, implacableness

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1. List of paraphrases for "bitterness":

   resentment, exasperation, acrimony, rancour, sadness

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1. Maria Varenikova:

   If there is one overriding emotion gripping Ukraine right now, it is hate, it is a deep, seething bitterness for President Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian President Vladimir Putin military, and Russian President Vladimir Putin government.

2. Lamar Sally:

   All I can do is to take care of my son the best way I know how, but I feel sorry for Sherri, i don’t hate her or have any bitterness, but one day she is going to have to sit down and explain to LJ (Lamar Jr.) that she turned her back on him and I don’t know how she is going to do that.

3. Paul Valéry:

   Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Who, in after life, can help smiling at the fancies in which early anticipation revelled ; how absurd, how impossible, do they not now appear! Yet, in such mockery lurks much of bitterness : the laugh rings hollow from many a disappointment, and many a mortification.

5. Keira Knightley:

   I know for a fact the work is going to dry up, and people will get bored of me. That's not bitterness, just the truth.