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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪtənəs/

Definition 1:
• The quality of having a bitter taste.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 2:
• The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
Example: the bitterness of his words
Example: She kept her bitterness about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 3:
• The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
Example: Nothing could assuage the bitterness of their defeat.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 4:
• Harsh cold.
Example: The bitterness of the winter caught us all by surprise.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitterness