Bitter vs Quinovin - What's the difference?
bitter | quinovin |
As nouns the difference between bitter and quinovin 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 quinovin is (chemistry|archaic) an amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. As an adjective bitter is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). As a verb bitter is to make bitter.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
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.
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quinovin English
Alternative forms
* kinovin
Noun
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(chemistry, archaic) An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. |
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