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Bitter vs Mead - What's the difference?

bitter | mead |

As nouns the difference between bitter and mead

is that bitter is a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic while mead is an alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

As an adjective bitter

is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

As a verb bitter

is to make bitter.

As a proper noun Mead is

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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.
  • :
  • *(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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    mead

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) mede, from (etyl) medu, from (etyl) ‘honey; honey wine’.

    Alternative forms

    * meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
  • (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
    • Derived terms
    * mead-bench * meadery

    See also

    * ambrosia noun * ("mead" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian miede, Low German Meed, (Mede).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) A meadow.
  • * 1848 , , In Memoriam , 28:
    • Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound [...].
  • * 1920 , :
    • There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

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