Laugh as much as you like; I'll stick to my plan to the bitter end.
Source: tatoeba (18061)
Bitter
//ˈbɪt.ə//
Synonyms for "bitter" (283 found)
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Closest matches (57)
Strong matches (85)
Adjective(1 words)
cheerlesscholericclashingcoarsecoldcold as charitycold as deathcold as icecold as marblecollidingcomfortlessconflictingcorrodingcorrosivecrispcruelcuttingdeplorabledepressingdepressive
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despitefuldevastatingdirtydisagreeablediscomfortingdislikabledismaldismayingdispiritingdispleasingdistastefuldistressfuldistressingdisturbingdivideddolorificdolorogenicdolorousdouble edgeddouble-edgeddrearydyspepticedgedembitterembitteredenglish pale aleenvenomescharoticestrangedexacerbatefierceflavorfreezingfreezing coldfrigidfull of hategallinggelidglacialgrievousgusthardharshhatehatefulheatedhibernalhiemalhyperboreanice coldice-coldice-encrustedicelikeicyill-naturedincisiveinclementintemperateintolerableinvidious
Noun(2 words)
Related words (141)
irreconcilableirritatingjadedjaundicedjealousjoylesskeenlamentablemalevolentmaliciousmalignantmiserablemordaciousmordantmortalmournfulmovingnastynippingnippy
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nose ticklingnose-ticklingnumbingobnoxiousoffensivepainfulpalatepatheticpenetratingpiercingpinchingpiquantpiteouspitiablepoignantprovokingpungentquarrelsomerancorousrankledrawregrettablerelishremorsefulreproachfulrepugnantresentfulresentingrigorousroughruefulruggedsadsaddeningsaltsapiditysaporsarcasticsavorsavorinessscathingscorchingset againstseveresharpsiberiansleetyslushysmacksnappysoresoursour-temperedsouredspitefulspleneticstabbingstewingstingingstomachstone coldstone-coldstridentstringentsubzerosulfuroussupercooledsweettangtarttastetastythanklesstonguetoothtouchingtrenchantuglyunalluringunappealingunappetizingunattractiveuncomfortableundelectableundeliciousundesirableunengagingunenjoyableuninvitingunkindunlikableunpalatableunpleasantunpleasingunsavoryuntastefulunwelcomevehementvenomousvexatiousviciousvinegarishviolentvirulentvitriolicwinterboundwinterlikewinterywintrywitheringwoebegonewoefulwretched
Adverb(1 words)
Adjective(4 words)
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4 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
113 entriesShowing 16 of 113 words.
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2 entriesdistinct from
3 entrieshas context
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5 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
similar
13 entriesTranslations
301 translations across 141 languages.
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒋀 adj (having an acrid taste)
Aklanon
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Albanian
1 entries- hidhur adj (having an acrid taste)
Amharic
1 entries- መራራ adj (having an acrid taste)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πικρός adj (having an acrid taste)
Arabic
4 entries- أَلِيم adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- مر adj (having an acrid taste)
- مَقِيت adj (hateful or hostile)
- مَمْقُوت adj (hateful or hostile)
Argobba
1 entries- መራራ adj (having an acrid taste)
Armenian
4 entries- ամենաչար adj (hateful or hostile)
- անողոք adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- դաժան adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- դառն adj (having an acrid taste)
Aromanian
1 entries- amar adj (having an acrid taste)
Assamese
1 entries- তিতা adj (having an acrid taste)
Asturian
1 entries- amargu adj (having an acrid taste)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- acı adj (having an acrid taste)
- mürr adj (having an acrid taste)
Basque
1 entries- mingots adj (having an acrid taste)
Belarusian
1 entries- го́ркі adj (having an acrid taste)
Bengali
1 entries- তিতা adj (having an acrid taste)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- तीत adj (having an acrid taste)
Bikol Central
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Breton
1 entries- c'hwerv adj (having an acrid taste)
Buginese
1 entries- pai adj (having an acrid taste)
Bulgarian
4 entries- враждебен adj (hateful or hostile)
- горчив adj (having an acrid taste)
- злобен adj (hateful or hostile)
- остър adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
Burmese
1 entries- ခါး adj (having an acrid taste)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- amargu adj (having an acrid taste)
Catalan
2 entries- amarg adj (having an acrid taste)
- hostil adj (hateful or hostile)
Cebuano
1 entries- pait adj (having an acrid taste)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- تاڵ adj (having an acrid taste)
Chamicuro
1 entries- pshawa adj (having an acrid taste)
Chechen
1 entries- къаьхьа adj (having an acrid taste)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 苦 adj (having an acrid taste)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 可恨 adj (hateful or hostile)
- 可惡 /可恶 adj (hateful or hostile)
- 嚴酷 /严酷 adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- 心酸 adj (cynical and resentful)
Church Slavic
1 entries- горькъ adj (having an acrid taste)
Czech
2 entries- hořký adj (having an acrid taste)
- zatrpklý adj (cynical and resentful)
Dalmatian
3 entries- amuor adj (having an acrid taste)
- amur adj (having an acrid taste)
- marcus adj (having an acrid taste)
Danish
4 entries- bidende adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- bitter adj (having an acrid taste)
- bitter adj (hateful or hostile)
- bitter adj (cynical and resentful)
Dutch
4 entries- bitter adj (having an acrid taste)
- bitter adj (hateful or hostile)
- scherp adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- verbitterd adj (cynical and resentful)
Dzongkha
1 entries- ཁག་དྲགས adj (having an acrid taste)
Esperanto
1 entries- amara adj (having an acrid taste)
Estonian
2 entries- kibe adj (having an acrid taste)
- mõru adj (having an acrid taste)
Even
1 entries- гот adj (having an acrid taste)
Ewe
1 entries- veve adj (having an acrid taste)
Faroese
1 entries- beiskur adj (having an acrid taste)
Fijian
1 entries- qona adj (having an acrid taste)
Finnish
4 entries- karvas adj (having an acrid taste)
- katkera adj (hateful or hostile)
- katkera adj (cynical and resentful)
- kitkerä adj (having an acrid taste)
French
4 entries- amer adj (having an acrid taste)
- amer adj (cynical and resentful)
- dur adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- haineux adj (hateful or hostile)
Friulian
2 entries- amar adj (having an acrid taste)
- amâr adj (having an acrid taste)
Galician
1 entries- amargo adj (having an acrid taste)
Gallurese
1 entries- ràncicu adj (having an acrid taste)
Georgian
1 entries- მწარე adj (having an acrid taste)
German
4 entries- arg adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- bitter adj (having an acrid taste)
- bitter adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- erbittert adj (hateful or hostile)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐍃 adj (having an acrid taste)
- 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍂𐍃 adj (cynical and resentful)
Greek
3 entries- πικρός adj (having an acrid taste)
- πικρός adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- πικρός adj (cynical and resentful)
Hebrew
4 entries- מַר adj (having an acrid taste)
- מָרִיר adj (having an acrid taste)
- מרה adj (having an acrid taste)
- מריר adj (cynical and resentful)
Higaonon
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Hindi
4 entries- ईर्ष्यालु adj (hateful or hostile)
- उग्र adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- कटु adj (having an acrid taste)
- कड़वा adj (having an acrid taste)
Hungarian
4 entries- elkeseredett adj (hateful or hostile)
- keserű adj (having an acrid taste)
- megkeseredett adj (cynical and resentful)
- metsző adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
Icelandic
1 entries- beiskur adj (having an acrid taste)
Ido
1 entries- bitra adj (having an acrid taste)
Indonesian
1 entries- pahit adj (having an acrid taste)
Ingrian
1 entries- karkia adj (having an acrid taste)
Ingush
1 entries- къахьа adj (having an acrid taste)
Interlingua
1 entries- amar adj (having an acrid taste)
Irish
4 entries- domlasta adj (having an acrid taste)
- domlasta adj (cynical and resentful)
- goirt adj (having an acrid taste)
- searbh adj (having an acrid taste)
Italian
4 entries- amara adj (having an acrid taste)
- amaro adj (having an acrid taste)
- aspro adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- gelido adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
Ivatan
1 entries- makpad adj (having an acrid taste)
Japanese
4 entries- いやな adj (hateful or hostile)
- 憎らしい adj (hateful or hostile)
- 敵対 adj (hateful or hostile)
- 激しい adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
Javanese
1 entries- pait adj (having an acrid taste)
Kapampangan
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Kazakh
2 entries- ашты adj (having an acrid taste)
- ащы adj (having an acrid taste)
Khiamniungan Naga
3 entries- khōushāk adj (having an acrid taste)
- khōushāk adj (hateful or hostile)
- khōushāk adj (cynical and resentful)
Khmer
2 entries- ចត់ adj (having an acrid taste)
- ជូរ adj (having an acrid taste)
Korean
1 entries- 쓰다 adj (having an acrid taste)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ачуу adj (having an acrid taste)
Lao
1 entries- ຂົມ adj (having an acrid taste)
Latgalian
1 entries- ryugts adj (having an acrid taste)
Latin
4 entries- acerbus adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- amarus adj (cynical and resentful)
- amārus adj (having an acrid taste)
- asper adj (hateful or hostile)
Latvian
3 entries- rūgts adj (having an acrid taste)
- sīvs adj (having an acrid taste)
- sūrs adj (having an acrid taste)
Lombard
2 entries- amar adj (having an acrid taste)
- mar adj (having an acrid taste)
Low German
1 entries- bitter adj (having an acrid taste)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- górki adj (having an acrid taste)
Macedonian
1 entries- горчлив adj (having an acrid taste)
Makasar
1 entries- pai adj (having an acrid taste)
Malay
1 entries- pahit adj (having an acrid taste)
Malayalam
1 entries- കയ്പ്പ് adj (having an acrid taste)
Maltese
1 entries- morr adj (having an acrid taste)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡤᠣᠰᡳᡥᠣᠨ adj (having an acrid taste)
Mansaka
1 entries- pait adj (having an acrid taste)
Maranao
1 entries- mapa'it adj (having an acrid taste)
Marathi
4 entries- उग्र adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- कट्टर adj (hateful or hostile)
- कडू adj (having an acrid taste)
- तीव्र adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
Mongolian
1 entries- гашуун adj (having an acrid taste)
Māori
2 entries- pūraurau adj (hateful or hostile)
- pūraurau adj (cynical and resentful)
Nanai
1 entries- гочиси adj (having an acrid taste)
Naxi
1 entries- ka adj (having an acrid taste)
Norman
1 entries- amé adj (having an acrid taste)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- tal adj (having an acrid taste)
Northern Mansi
1 entries- восьрамыӈ adj (having an acrid taste)
Norwegian
3 entries- bitter adj (having an acrid taste)
- bitter adj (hateful or hostile)
- bitter adj (cynical and resentful)
Nǀuu
1 entries- ǁxʼaaqʻi adj (having an acrid taste)
Occitan
1 entries- amar adj (having an acrid taste)
Odia
2 entries- କଟୁ adj (having an acrid taste)
- ତିକ୍ତ adj (having an acrid taste)
Ojibwe
1 entries- wiisagi adj (having an acrid taste)
Old English
1 entries- āfor adj (having an acrid taste)
Old Irish
1 entries- aicher adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
Old Javanese
1 entries- pahit adj (having an acrid taste)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- آجی adj (having an acrid taste)
- آجی adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- آجی adj (cynical and resentful)
Persian
1 entries- تلخ adj (having an acrid taste)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- betta adj (having an acrid taste)
Polish
2 entries- gorzki adj (having an acrid taste)
- zgorzkniały adj (cynical and resentful)
Portuguese
4 entries- agudo adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- amargo adj (having an acrid taste)
- amargurado adj (cynical and resentful)
- encarniçado adj (hateful or hostile)
Quechua
1 entries- k'allku adj (having an acrid taste)
Romanian
1 entries- amar adj (having an acrid taste)
Russian
4 entries- вражде́бный adj (hateful or hostile)
- го́рький adj (having an acrid taste)
- го́рький adj (harsh, piercing or stinging)
- зло́бный adj (hateful or hostile)
Sanskrit
1 entries- तिक्त adj (having an acrid taste)
Sardinian
2 entries- rànchiu adj (having an acrid taste)
- rànzigu adj (having an acrid taste)
Sassarese
1 entries- rànzigu adj (having an acrid taste)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gorak adj (having an acrid taste)
- grk adj (having an acrid taste)
- ljȗt adj (hateful or hostile)
- opor adj (having an acrid taste)
Sicilian
1 entries- amaru adj (having an acrid taste)
Slovak
1 entries- horký adj (having an acrid taste)
Slovene
2 entries- grenak adj (having an acrid taste)
- zagrenjen adj (cynical and resentful)
Somali
1 entries- qadhaadh adj (having an acrid taste)
Spanish
4 entries- acibarado adj (having an acrid taste)
- amargado adj (cynical and resentful)
- amargo adj (having an acrid taste)
- amargoso adj (having an acrid taste)
Swedish
4 entries- besk adj (having an acrid taste)
- bitter adj (having an acrid taste)
- bitter adj (hateful or hostile)
- bitter adj (cynical and resentful)
Tagalog
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Tajik
1 entries- талх adj (having an acrid taste)
Tausug
1 entries- mapait adj (having an acrid taste)
Tedim Chin
1 entries- kha adj (having an acrid taste)
Telugu
2 entries- చేదు adj (having an acrid taste)
- చేదు adj (hateful or hostile)
Thai
1 entries- ขม adj (having an acrid taste)
Tongan
1 entries- kava adj (having an acrid taste)
Turkish
4 entries- acı adj (having an acrid taste)
- acılı adj (having an acrid taste)
- iliklere işleyen adj (having an acrid taste)
- keskin adj (having an acrid taste)
Turkmen
1 entries- ajy adj (having an acrid taste)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎎𐎗 adj (having an acrid taste)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гірки́й adj (having an acrid taste)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- hórki adj (having an acrid taste)
- jěrki adj (having an acrid taste)
Urdu
1 entries- کڑوا adj (having an acrid taste)
Uzbek
1 entries- achchiq adj (having an acrid taste)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đắng adj (having an acrid taste)
Welsh
1 entries- chwerw adj (having an acrid taste)
Yakut
1 entries- аһыы adj (having an acrid taste)
Yiddish
1 entries- ביטער adj (having an acrid taste)
Zazaki
1 entries- tun (diq) adj (having an acrid taste)
Zou
1 entries- khe adj (having an acrid taste)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Whatever happens, I'll stick to my principles to the bitter end.
Source: tatoeba (25055)
Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.
Source: tatoeba (28169)
We were all shaking from the bitter cold.
Source: tatoeba (28814)
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