bitterness

bitterness is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
2. noun. A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
3. noun. Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
4. noun. a rough and bitter manner

   Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness

5. noun. the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

   Synonyms: bitter

6. noun. the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

   Synonyms: bitter

7. noun. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

   Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

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