Bitterly

Definition: Bitterly

Bitterly

Adverb

1. In a resentful manner; "she complained bitterly".

2. Indicating something hard to accept; "he was bitterly disappointed".

3. Extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bitterly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Bitterly

Cold

Adverb: coldly, bitterly. Adjective: pierre fendre;

Greatness

Painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.

Crosswords: Bitterly

Bitterly disappointed (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson)

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"Ha-ha", said Eeyore bitterly. "Merriment and what-not. Don't apologize. It's just what would happen."

Bruno was standing with his hands over his face, crying bitterly.

Even little babes, when I take them in my arms, weep bitterly.

He shed hot tears, he wept bitterly, with more weakness than a woman, with more terror than a child

He sobbed loudly and bitterly.

I cannot tell if to depart in silence Or bitterly to speak in your reproof Best fitteth my degree or your condition

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Economic History

Serbia and Montenegro

In January 1998, Milo Djukanovic became Montenegro's President, following bitterly contested elections in November 1997, which had been adjudged by international monitors to have been free and fair. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

Domestic flour millers and beverage manufacturers continue to complain bitterly about the high duties on wheat and sugar. (references)

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The fool grinds bitterly

Expressions using "bitterly": cry bitterly ♦ weep bitterly. Additional references.

Beginning with "bitterly": bitterly-disputed, bitterly-fought, bitterly-upset.

Albanian

thekshëm (heartfelt), hidhur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرير (bitter, salt), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

горчиво, горко, озлобено. (various references)

Chinese 

苦涩地. (various references)

Czech

urputnì, trpce, nemilosrdnì (unmercifully), hořce. (various references)

Finnish

on paukkuva pakkanen (it is bitterly cold). (various references)

French

saumâtre (bitter), avec amertume, amèrement. (various references)

German

bitter (abject, acerbic, acrid, acrimoniously, bitter, bitters, cruel, deadly, grievous, hard, nasty, painful, pungent). (various references)

Greek 

με πικρία, πικρά, τσουχτερός (crisp). (various references)

Hebrew 

למרר בבכי (weep bitterly), ל�"תיפח (cry bitterly, sob). (various references)

Hungarian

keservesen (dearly, grievously, hard, the hard way), keserûen, keserűen (sardonically, sourly), elkeseredetten (desperately, tooth and nail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

否という程 (extremely, persistently). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いやというほど (extremely, persistently). (various references)

Korean 

�"�게. (various references)

Pig Latin

itterlybay.(various references)

Portuguese

cruelmente (cruelly, harshly, severely), amargamente. (various references)

Romanian

vehement (harangue, hot and strong, passionate, passionately, vehement, vehemently, violent), cu amãrãciune, amarnic (dreadful, grievous, hard, terrible), amar (bitter, bitterness, dreadful, gall, poignant, rude, salt, severe, sore, sour, suffering). (various references)

Russian 

горько. (various references)

Scottish

guineach (bitterly malicious, keen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogorčeno (indignantly), ljutito (angrily, annoyingly, crossly, harshly, huff). (various references)

Spanish

amargamente. (various references)

Swedish

bittert, bitterligen. (various references)

Thai

ที่เสีย�"แทงใจ, ที่ขมขื่น. (various references)

Turkish

keskin olarak, için için (innerly, within), acı olarak (poignantly). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильно (aloud, amain, deep, deeply, hard, high, loud, nervously, powerfully, severely, sound, strongly, sturdily, violently, widely), розлючено, гірко. (various references)

amare, amarum, atrociter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Bitterly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balterley, battely, bitterley, bittery, bittily, Botterell, Botterills, Bottomly, brittlely, bttrly, butterly, Buttlerley, Buturlin, bytery, Hidderley. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: brittle, brittly, liberty, littery, tritely.

-2 letters: bitter, litter, riblet, tetryl, tilter, trebly, trilby.

-3 letters: beryl, birle, biter, bitty, blite, britt, liber, liter, litre, relit, riley, tiler, titer, title, titre, tribe, trite.

-4 letters: belt, bier, bile, birl, bite, bitt, blet, brie, brit, byre, byrl, byte, lier, lire, lite, lyre, rely, riel, rile, rite, tier, tile.

+1 letter: brittlely.

+3 letters: bipartitely, rentability.

+4 letters: alterability, biotelemetry, butterflying, exorbitantly, heritability, reputability, tolerability, traceability, treatability.

+5 letters: attributively, bacteriolytic, bathymetrical, bittersweetly, breathability, creditability, deterrability, exportability, extrudability, filterability, integrability, marketability, obstetrically, obstructively, overstability, penetrability, repeatability, resectability, resistibility, retributively, sinterability.