BITTER

Bitter

Bitter is an English term for pale ale. Bitters vary in colour from gold to dark amber and in strength from 3% to 7% alcohol by volume.

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bitter

Noun

  1. A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
  2. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
  3. A turn of a cable about the bitts.

Verb

  1. To make bitter.

Adjective

  1. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance)
    The coffee tasted bitter.
  2. Harsh, piercing or stinging
    A bitter wind blew from the north.
    1999: It was at the end of February, ... when the world was cold, and a bitter wind howled down the moors.... — Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 31 (Perennial paperback edition)
  3. Hateful or hostile.
    They're bitter enemies.
  4. Cynical and resentful.
    I've been bitter ever since that defeat.


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