bitter

Significat (anglès)

Adj

1. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
2. Harsh, piercing or stinging.
3. Hateful or hostile.
4. Cynical and resentful.

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

To make bitter.

Noun

A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).

Amb guionet com

bit‧ter

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈbɪtə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English bitter, bittre, from Old English bitter, biter (“bitter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitr, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz (“bitter”), equivalent to bite + -er (agent noun suffix) used attributively. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitter, West Frisian bitter, Low German bitter, Dutch bitter, German bitter, Swedish bitter, Icelandic bitur (all meaning “bitter”).

Sents

I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me .