BITTER Synonyms

• strong and sharp

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• marked by strong resentment or cynicism

• showing deep-seated resentment

• full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• having a sharp biting taste

• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

• the property of being acidic

• smelling of fermentation or staleness

• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

• in an unpalatable state

• inaccurate in pitch

• showing a brooding ill humor

• go sour or spoil

• make sour or more sour

• a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

• a rough and bitter manner

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

• the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

• sour or bitter in taste

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt

• street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• being sour to the taste

• having the characteristics of an acid

• capable of wounding

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

• extremely and sharply

• with bitterness; in a resentful manner

• indicating something hard to accept

• extremely and sharply

• the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters

• very fast; capable of quick response and great speed

• any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue

• the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

• exhausted

• dulled by surfeit

• extremely and sharply

• in a shrill voice

• of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

• of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

• infectious; having the ability to cause disease

• extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom

• harsh or corrosive in tone