Definition of Bitterness

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Bitterness

The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.

A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.

Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.

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Bitterness Quotations

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius

Bitterness Translations

bitterness in Dutch is bitterheid, verbittering
bitterness in French is amertume
bitterness in German is Verbitterung, Bitterkeit
bitterness in Italian is esacerbazione
bitterness in Latin is acerbitas, ruta, amaritudo
bitterness in Spanish is amargura
bitterness in Swedish is bitterhet

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