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# The quality of having a [[bitter]] [[taste]].
# The quality of [[feeling]] bitter; [[acrimony]], [[resentment]]; exhibiting such feelings.
#: ''She remained '''bitter''' about her mistreatment for the rest of her life.''
#: ''He wept '''bitter''' tears.''
# The quality of eliciting a bitter feeling; [[humiliating]], [[harsh]].
#: ''They went down to a '''bitter''' defeat.''
#: ''We have '''bitter''' lessons to learn from this fiasco.''
# Harshly [[cold]] (especially of weather).
#: ''Livestock perished and the settlement was threatened with starvation in the '''bitter''' winter.''
#: ''Every autumn, the '''bitter''' wind begins to blow through the poorly sealed windows.''
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