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- a bitter attitude about always having to work on Saturday
- she's still bitter about how her family treated her so unfairly
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- caring,
- forgiving,
- gentle,
- kind,
- kindhearted,
- loving,
- sweet,
- sympathetic,
- tender,
- warm,
- warmhearted
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- discovering that he had been cut from the crew team was a bitter disappointment
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- a bitter wind was stinging the faces of the skiers
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- a bitter lesson about money and friendship
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- a bitter February day for this part of the country
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- a bitter, rainy day
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- a bitter cry of grief
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- dirgelike,
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- melancholy
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- dispirited,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- tearful
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- ecstatic,
- elated,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- heady,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
- had to face the bitter truth about their marriage
Synonyms for bitter
- bad,
- disagreeable,
- displeasing,
- distasteful,
- harsh,
- icky,
- nasty,
- rotten,
- sour,
- uncongenial,
- unlovely,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unpleasing,
- unsavory,
- unwelcome,
- wicked,
- yucky
- (also yukky)
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- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- appalling,
- awful,
- beastly,
- bilious,
- disgusting,
- dreadful,
- foul,
- ghastly,
- gnarly
- [slang],
- god-awful,
- gross,
- hateful,
- hellish,
- hideous,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- invidious,
- loathsome,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- noisome,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- odious,
- offensive,
- repellent
- (also repellant),
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- revulsive,
- scandalous,
- seamy,
- shocking,
- sick,
- sickening,
- ugly,
- unholy,
- vile,
- villainous
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“Bitter.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitter. Accessed 25 January 2020.
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The first known use of bitter was before the 12th century
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