bitter🔊

Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).

Harsh, piercing or stinging.

Hateful or hostile.

Cynical and resentful.

A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.

A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.

(nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.

To make bitter.

(computing, informal) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).