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Bitterly

//ˈbɪtəɹli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a bitter manner.

    "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair."

  2. 2
    Extremely

    "On a bitterly cold evening at Wembley, the Lionesses knew only victory would be enough to keep alive Team GB's hopes of competing in Paris."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with bitterness; in a resentful manner wordnet
  2. 2
    indicating something hard to accept wordnet
  3. 3
    extremely and sharply wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English bitterli, biterli, biterliche, from Old English biterlīċe, bitterlīċe (“bitterly”), equivalent to bitter + -ly. Cognate with German Low German bitterlik (“bitterly”), German bitterlich (“bitterly”), Swedish bitterligen (“bitterly”).

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