BITTER, BITTERLY, BITTERNESS, BITTER-TEMPERED
ADJECTIVES
1200 — BASK bitter, acrid, ungrateful or irritating to the senses → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1590 — RANCOROUS bitter, resentful, spiteful; having, or partaking of, the nature of rancour
1596 — GALLFUL bitter, malignant; full of gall → obs.
1612 — ACRIMONIOUS bitter and hot to the taste; bitterly pungent, irritating, corrosive; acrid → arch.
1638 — SARDONIC bitter, scornful, mocking; exhibiting bitterness, scorn, mockery, or ironic ridicule
1657 — ACROAMARE pungently bitter → obs.
1703 — CANKERED bitter, spiteful, ill-tempered; cross, querulous → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1775 — ACRIMONIOUS bitter and irritating in disposition or manner; bitter-tempered
1814 — RANCOURING making bitter
1825 — VITIOUS bitter, spiteful, revengeful, implacable → Eng. dial.
1859 — SARDONICAL bitter, scornful, mocking; exhibiting bitterness, scorn, mockery, or ironic ridicule
1865 — ACERBIC bitter and sharp, esp. in speech, manner, or temper
1878 — HASKY bitter, harsh → Eng. dial.
1881 — HASK bitter, sour, tart, harsh to the taste → Eng. dial.
1885 — VITRID — VITRIT bitter; angry, malicious, vicious → Eng. dial.
1900 — ELLER bitter, sour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1916 — GARGIE bitter → Sc.
1960 — SALTY bitter → Amer. sl.
1996 — BITTER AS BONESET very bitter → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
2000 — APPLE FRITTER emotionally bitter → rhyming sl.
ADVERBS
1000 — HATELY bitterly, fiercely; scornfully, hatefully → obs.
1377 — EAGERLY bitterly, angrily, fiercely, malignantly → obs.
1767 — RANCOROUSLY bitterly, spitefully
NOUNS
1300 — RANCOUR bitterness; spitefulness; inveterate and bitter ill-feeling, grudge, or animosity; malignant hatred
1425 — SMARTNESS bitterness; sharpness of taste → obs.
1475 — EAGERNESS bitterness, irritability → obs.
1572 — ACERBITY sharpness mingled with bitterness, keen harshness
1599 — AMARITUDE a being bitter to the taste; bitter taste or flavour → obs.
1599 — GLYCYPICRON something composed of bitter and sweet → obs.
..17C — ALOES bitter experiences → obs.
1611 — ACERBITY sourness of taste, mingled with bitterness or astringency; harshness, roughness of taste
1618 — ACRIMONY sharp or irritating bitterness of temper or manner
1675 — ACRITUDE bitterness, sharpness or pungency of taste; acridity → obs.
1727 — RANCOROUSNESS bitterness, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will
1731 — ACERBITUDE bitterness, sourness, harshness in taste → obs.
1768 — ACID bitterness, sourness; rancour, spite
1768 — GALL bitterness, spite, malice; a grudge → Sc.
1793 — ACERBATION a feeling of bitterness; also, exacerbation of a negative feeling or problem
1795 — RANKLE an instant bitterness; rankling thought or feeling
1798 — BITTERMENT bitterness → Eng. dial.
..19C — SOUR-SOP a bitter remark → Eng. dial.
..L19 — NEEDLE bitterness, resentment, irritation → sl.
VERBS
1530 — RANCOUR to be bitter; to have rancorous feelings; to rankle → obs.
1614 — SAUCE to make bitter → obs.
1759 — HAVE A WORM IN ONE’S TONGUE to be bitter in speech; to be cantankerous; to snarl and bite like a mad dog