Synonyms of bile

bile

noun

ˈbī(-ə)l 

as in bitterness

biting sharpness of feeling or expression

with considerable bile, the author recounts a childhood filled with misery and loneliness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bitterness
• hostility
• severity
• vitriol
• malice
• anger
• virulence
• venom
• acidity
• corrosiveness
• acrimony
• acridity
• virulency
• resentment
• tartness
• mordancy
• cattiness
• acridness
• spite
• asperity
• vehemence
• harshness
• jealousy
• spleen
• animosity
• jaundice
• acidness
• sourness
• gruffness
• rancor
• coldness
• malevolence
• scorn
• incivility
• sternness
• gall
• vindictiveness
• rudeness
• crossness
• surliness
• relentlessness
• nastiness
• impoliteness
• iciness
• ungraciousness
• pique
• sour grapes
• discourteousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• diplomacy
• sympathy
• kindness
• politeness
• geniality
• cordiality
• civility
• tenderness
• courtesy
• compassion
• sweetness
• warmth
• graciousness
• softness
• tactfulness
• smoothness
• urbanity
• suavity
• unctuousness
• oiliness
• suaveness

Examples of bile in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That's because the estrogen the body produces during pregnancy can lead to higher cholesterol levels in your bile. —Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 1 July 2024

The feedback comes from receptors in the liver that monitor blood cholesterol concentration, and when the concentration gets too high, cholesterol is removed from circulation and used to produce bile, which is stored in the gall bladder. —Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 29 Feb. 2024

But with this bottom-up self-assertion has come the bile that so terrified the founders of modern India. —Vinay Sitapati, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2021

But Slovakia’s politics are particularly poisonous, swamped by wild conspiracy theories and bile. —Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 19 May 2024