Shrewd vs Bitter - What's the difference?
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showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters
artful, tricky or cunning
streetwise
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knowledgeable
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(archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
* 1599 ,
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.
Shrewd is a related term of bitter.
As adjectives the difference between shrewd and bitter
is that shrewd is showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters while 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.shrewd
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Adjective
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- LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
Derived terms
* shrewdly * shrewdnessbitter
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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 .