Word info Synonyms Antonyms

embittered

Speech parts

1. embittered - Adjective

2. embittered - Verb

Meaning

embittered (comparative more embittered, superlative most embittered)

Deeply hostile, resentful.
an embittered enemy

embittered

simple past and past participle of embitter

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. George Orwell

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. Emil Cioran

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life. Willa Cather

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say. Paulo Coelho

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth. Greek Proverb

Close letter words and terms