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Bitter vs Freezing - What's the difference?

bitter | freezing |

As adjectives the difference between bitter and freezing

is that bitter is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance) while freezing is suffering or causing frost.

As nouns the difference between bitter and freezing

is that bitter is a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic while freezing is the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

As verbs the difference between bitter and freezing

is that bitter is to make bitter while freezing is present participle of lang=en.

bitter

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
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  • *
  • *:Long after his cigar burnt bitter , he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging.
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  • *1999 , (Neil Gaiman), Stardust , p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
  • *:It was at the end of February,.
  • Hateful or hostile.
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  • *(Bible), (w) iii. 19
  • *:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
  • Cynical and resentful.
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  • Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form (bitterer) and superlative form (bitterest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).

    Derived terms

    * bitter pill to swallow

    See also

    * bitter end

    Antonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) optimistic

    Synonyms

    * (cynical and resentful) jaded

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
  • * 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
  • Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
    "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
  • (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
  • Derived terms

    * brought up to a bitter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make bitter.
  • (Wolcott)
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    freezing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (literally) Suffering or causing frost
  • (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
  • Synonyms

    * (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icy

    Noun

    (wikipedia freezing)
  • (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  • * 1829 , James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
  • Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
  • (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * freezing point