Antonyms for bitter
ˈbɪt ərbit·ter

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1. bitteradjective

   Antonyms:
   optimistic

   Synonyms:
   jaded

2. bitteradjective

   Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance)

   The coffee was bitter.

   Antonyms:
   optimistic

   Synonyms:
   jaded

3. bitteradjective

   Harsh, piercing or stinging

   Antonyms:
   optimistic

   Synonyms:
   jaded

4. bitteradjective

   Hateful or hostile

   They're bitter enemies.

   Antonyms:
   optimistic

   Synonyms:
   jaded

5. bitteradjective

   Cynical and resentful

   I've been bitter ever since that defeat.

   Synonyms:
   jaded

   Antonyms:
   optimistic

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bitter

   Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.

   Antonyms:
   dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweet

   Synonyms:
   acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, sour, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulent

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bitter

   Antonyms:
   sweet, mellow, pleasant, affable, kindly, genial, light, mitigated, trivial

   Synonyms:
   harsh, sour, sharp, tart, acrimonious, sarcastic, severe, sad, afflictive, intense, stinging, pungent, acrid, cutting

Matched Categories

1. • Ale

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bitternoun

   English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)

   Antonyms:
   joyful, tasteless, painless, amicable, tolerable, unresentful, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   bitterness

2. bitter, bitternessnoun

   the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

   Antonyms:
   painless, pleasant, amicable, unresentful, joyful, tasteless, tolerable

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancour, rancor, thorniness, acrimony, jaundice, resentment, tartness, acerbity, gall

3. bitterness, bitteradjective

   the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

   Antonyms:
   painless, tolerable, tasteless, unresentful, amicable, pleasant, joyful

   Synonyms:
   bitterness, rancour, rancor, thorniness, acrimony, jaundice, resentment, tartness, acerbity, gall

4. acrimonious, bitteradjective

   marked by strong resentment or cynicism

   "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"

   Antonyms:
   tasteless, pleasant, painless, unresentful, tolerable, amicable, joyful

   Synonyms:
   acrimonious, acrid, biting, acid, sulphurous, caustic, virulent, blistering, acerbic, vitriolic, acerb, sulfurous

5. bitteradjective

   very difficult to accept or bear

   "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow"

   Antonyms:
   tolerable, tasteless, amicable, painless, unresentful, pleasant, joyful

   Synonyms:
   acrimonious, biting, blistering, acid, sulphurous, acrid, virulent, caustic, acerbic, vitriolic, acerb, sulfurous

6. acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolicadjective

   harsh or corrosive in tone

   "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, tolerable, amicable, unresentful, joyful, tasteless, painless

   Synonyms:
   virulent, blistering, red-hot, vitriolic, hot, blistery, acerbic, stifling, sulphurous, acidic, acrimonious, caustic, mordant, acidulous, venomous, astringent, sulfurous, acrid, deadly, acid, corrosive, pungent, biting, sultry, acidulent, acerb, erosive

7. bitteradjective

   expressive of severe grief or regret

   "shed bitter tears"

   Antonyms:
   unresentful, amicable, tolerable, joyful, pleasant, tasteless, painless

   Synonyms:
   acrimonious, biting, blistering, acid, sulphurous, acrid, virulent, caustic, acerbic, vitriolic, acerb, sulfurous

8. bitteradjective

   proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity

   "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"

   Antonyms:
   tolerable, unresentful, joyful, amicable, tasteless, painless, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   acrimonious, biting, blistering, acid, sulphurous, acrid, virulent, caustic, acerbic, vitriolic, acerb, sulfurous

9. bitteradjective

   causing a sharp and acrid taste experience;"quinine is bitter"

   Antonyms:
   tolerable, amicable, joyful, unresentful, pleasant, painless, tasteless

   Synonyms:
   acrimonious, biting, blistering, acid, sulphurous, acrid, virulent, caustic, acerbic, vitriolic, acerb, sulfurous

10. biting, bitterverb

    causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

    "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"

    Antonyms:
    amicable, painless, pleasant, tolerable, unresentful, tasteless, joyful

    Synonyms:
    virulent, nipping, barbed, vitriolic, mordacious, acerbic, sulphurous, acrimonious, caustic, acrid, sulfurous, blistering, acid, pungent, biting, acerb

11. bitteradverb

    make bitter

    Antonyms:
    unresentful, painless, tasteless, amicable, pleasant, joyful, tolerable

12. piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitteradverb

    extremely and sharply

    "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"

    Antonyms:
    pleasant, joyful, unresentful, tasteless, amicable, tolerable, painless

    Synonyms:
    bitingly, bitterly, piercingly, shrilly

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1. bitteradjective

   Synonyms:
   acrid, acerb, poignant, intense, calamitous, distressing, virulent, acrimonious, implacable

How to use bitter in a sentence?

1. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven:

   Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.

2. Samuel Goldwyn:

   You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

3. Sipho P Nkosi:

   Never take yesterday into today, hence it'll make today bitter.

4. Shao Tong mom:

   I'm bitter, very bitter. My heart aches.

5. Sean Windham-Burke:

   Only Kelly Dodd would post screenshots of her own texts that make her look wildly immature, i guess that’s what being bitter is like, and I tried to empathize with her, as you can see.

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