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Bitter vs Wretchedly - What's the difference?

bitter | wretchedly |

As an adjective bitter

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

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.

As a verb bitter

is to make bitter.

As an adverb wretchedly is

in a wretched manner.

bitter

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *: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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    wretchedly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a wretched manner.
  • * 2006 , Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone , ICON Group International, Inc., page 157 [http://books.google.com/books?id=tBhxl1UQMy8C&pg=PA157&dq=wretchedly+date:1970-2008&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sig=mOLHAt2YU3cOXM91D6DnLE34Vwk]
    • I felt wretchedly old, and worn out, and unfit for my place - and began to wonder, for the first time in my life, when it would please God to take me.