1
[ adverb ] in a resentful manner

Synonyms

with_bitterness

Examples

"she complained bitterly"

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

And no_doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia , which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century , bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown .

Related terms

acrimonious acrimonious

2
[ adverb ] indicating something hard to accept

Examples

"he was bitterly disappointed"

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose .

Related terms

bitter bitter

3
[ adverb ] extremely and sharply

Synonyms

bitingly bitter piercingly

Examples

"it was bitterly cold" "bitter cold"

Related terms

cutting biting biting biting

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Rhymes with

utterly easterly northeasterly burly northwesterly kimberley westerly quarterly eagerly early painterly masterly quarterly entirely linearly gingerly somberly brotherly soberly neighborly leisurely elderly southerly weatherly motherly improperly pearly tenderly similarly disorderly properly orderly overly fatherly cleverly irregularly popularly singularly painterly particularly circularly regularly spectacularly peculiarly unnaturally miserly curly surly northerly scholarly formerly

Phonetic and Homophones

B IH1 T ER0 L IY0

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