| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
| |
bitter |
| |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing sharp, often prolonged discomfort: brutal, hard, harsh, rough, severe. See COMFORT. 2. Difficult to accept: distasteful, indigestible, painful, unpalatable. See LIKE. 3. Having a noticeably sharp pungent taste or smell: acerbic, acrid, harsh, sour. See TASTE. 4. Bitingly hostile: acrimonious, embittered, hard, rancorous, resentful, virulent. See ATTITUDE, LOVE.
| | |
| |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
