embittered

English

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Adjective

embittered (comparative more embittered, superlative most embittered)

1. Deeply hostile, resentful.

   an embittered enemy

   • 1884, John William Wallace, An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford, the Patriot Printer of 1776. Sketches of His Life, page 141:

     […] they were opposed to it on grounds that were at once legal, political, historical, personal, geographical, and mixed; the whole combination of causes operating of necessity to make the opposition an embittered one.

   • 1944, Søren Kierkegaard, translated by Walter Lowrie, Training in Christianity, page 245:

     Again, by means of the ‘follower’s’ life, it will be revealed who is the admirer; for the admirers will become highly embittered against the follower.

   • 2011, Philip W. Anderson, More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon, →ISBN, page 177:

     Dawkins’ book is, oddly, much more embittered and deeply emotional, although leavened by his effervescent wit.

Derived terms

• embitteredly
• embitteredness
• unembittered

 

Verb

embittered

1. simple past and past participle of embitter