Bitter vs Witter - What's the difference?
bitter | witter |
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.
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
As adjectives the difference between bitter and witter
is that bitter is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance) while witter is (obsolete|or|dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.As verbs the difference between bitter and witter
is that bitter is to make bitter while witter is (intransitive|intransitive|obsolete|or|dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.As a noun bitter
is (usually in the plural bitters) a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.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 bitterwitter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) witter, witer, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) witteren, witeren, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.