| bitter | |
| 1. adj. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). | |
| The coffee tasted bitter. | |
| 2. adj. Harsh, piercing or stinging. | |
| 3. adj. Hateful or hostile. | |
| They're bitter enemies. | |
| 4. adj. Cynical and resentful. | |
| I've been bitter ever since that defeat. | |
| 5. n. (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic. | |
| 6. n. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops. | |
| 7. n. (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts. | |
| 8. v. To make bitter. | |
| 9. n. (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits). | |
