Bitter vs Smelling - What's the difference?
bitter | smelling |
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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(usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
* 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
(nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
The act by which something is smelled.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
As nouns the difference between bitter and smelling
is that bitter is (usually in the plural bitters) a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic while smelling is the act by which something is smelled.As verbs the difference between bitter and smelling
is that bitter is to make bitter while smelling is .As an adjective bitter
is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).bitter
English
Adjective
(en-adj)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 swallowSee also
* bitter endAntonyms
* (cynical and resentful) optimisticSynonyms
* (cynical and resentful) jadedNoun
(en noun)- Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
- "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .
Derived terms
* brought up to a bittersmelling
English
Verb
(head)- foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
- sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
Derived terms
* smelling saltsNoun
(en noun)- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings , chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires