Reverse Dictionary: BITTER

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