EMBITTERMENT Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

embitterment

noun

Definition of embitterment

as in antagonism

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The accusations, which Gomez denies, have left the 51-year-old Eagle Rock Democrat vulnerable to an upstart challenger from Highland Park who earned a reputation for antagonism while serving on the area’s neighborhood council.

— Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
There’s no need to pay committed Republicans, while committed Democrats will see the offer as a bald monetization of politics that can deepen their antagonism.

— Kenneth Greene, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of antagonism

Noun

In 2023, Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico pointed to the potential alienation of Hindu students during a legislative hearing on a GOP bill requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2026
In other photographs of Deckard, Vaughan preserves his stillness, his distance, and arch alienation played to perfection by Ford.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of alienation

Noun

In a time when peers such as the New York Dolls and Velvet Underground were upending rock and roll with glamour and arty disaffection, Television fulfilled the genre’s promises of both swaggering virtuosity and restless reinvention.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
The regime remains capable of suppressing any organized resistance in the country, but the growing disaffection of the elite threatens to weaken the state from within.

— Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of disaffection

Noun

Sam doesn’t enter the picture until the very end of the first episode, which establishes both the sorry state of Charlie’s personal life and the mystery that will bring her and Sam back into each other’s lives after a decade-long estrangement.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Nov. 2026
Her stories examine estrangement, marital loneliness, and the difficulty of separating the self from familial and societal roles.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of estrangement

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