Synonyms of the word

bitterness

• n. The quality of having a bitter taste.
• n. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.

acerbity

• n. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
• n. Harshness, bitterness, or severity.

acrimony

• n. A sharp and bitter hatred.

bitter

• adj. Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
• adj. Harsh, piercing or stinging.
• adj. Hateful or hostile.
• adj. Cynical and resentful.
• n. (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as…
• n. A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
• n. (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
• v. To make bitter.
• n. (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the…

disagreeableness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being disagreeable.
• n. (countable) A disagreeable behaviour, occurrence, etc.

enmity

• n. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
• n. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

gall

• n. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting…
• n. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
• n. (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
• n. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
• n. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
• n. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as…
• n. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
• n. (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the…
• v. (transitive) To trouble or bother.
• v. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
• v. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
• v. To exasperate.
• v. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond…
• v. To scoff; to jeer.
• n. (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing…
• v. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

hostility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
• n. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

jaundice

• n. (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of…
• v. (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

rancor

• n. The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

rancour

• n. Britain and Canada spelling of rancor.

resentment

• n. A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed;…
• n. (obsolete) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined…
• n. (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude.

tartness

• n. The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste; sourness; bitterness.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

thorniness

• n. The property of being thorny (of having thorns or metaphorically being difficult).