Bitterness

Definition

bitter /'bÇtǝ(r)/ adj ၁။ ခါးေသာ။ Black coffee leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. ❍ bitter chocolate. Compare SOUR ၂။ ခါးသီးေသာ။ နာၾကည္းေသာ။ learn from bitter experience ❍ Failing the exam was a bitter disappointment to him. ❍ shed bitter tears. ၃။ အမ်က္ေျခာင္းေျခာင္းထြက္ေသာ။ ခါးခါးသီးသီးမုန္းေသာ၊ နာေသာ။ bitter quarrels/enemies/words ❍ She feels/is very bitter about her divorce. ၄။ (ရာသီဥတု) အ႐ိုးခိုက္ေအာင္ေအးေသာ။ a bitter wind. n [U, C] ( Brit ) ဘီယာခါး။ A pint of bitter, please. ❏ bitterly adv ခါးခါးသီးသီး။ အသည္းအသန္။ ျပင္းျပင္း ထန္ထန္။ bitterly disappointed/disappointing ❍ He bitterly regrets all the harm he has done. ❍ She wept bitterly. ❍ complain bitterly ❍ He is bitterly (ie very strongly) opposed to nuclear weapons. ❍ It's bitterly cold outside today. bitterness n [U]: The pay cut caused bitterness and resentment among the staff. ❏ a bitter pill (for sb) (to swallow) [ IDM ] ေက်နပ္လက္ခံ ရန္ ခက္ခဲလြန္းလွသည့္ ပကတိအေျခအေနမွန္၊ အျဖစ္မွန္။ Defeat in the election was a bitter pill for him to swallow. ❏ bitters n [U, sing or pl v ] (အေဖ်ာ္ယမကာအခ်ဳိ႕၌ အနံ႔အရသာေကာင္းမြန္ေအာင္ ထည့္ေသာ၊ အပင္မွ ထုတ္ယူ ရရိွသည့္) အရက္ခါး။ gin with a dash of bitters. ❏ bitter-sweet adj ၁။ ခ်ဳိသက္သက္။ ၂။ ၾကည္ႏူးဖြယ္၊ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ ေရာႁပြမ္းလ်က္ရိွေသာ။ bitter-sweet memories. ❏ to/until the bitter end [ IDM ] အႀကိတ္အနယ္ ေနာက္ပိတ္ ဆံုး ပြဲသိမ္းသည္အထိ။ fight/struggle to the bitter end ❍ stay watching the match until the bitter end.

Examples

1. [bitter about] : I’m still bitter about the whole affair.
2. A bitter dispute/divorce case
3. One of the President’s most bitter critics
4. They had always been bitter rivals.
5. [a bitter blow/disappointment] : It was a bitter blow when he lost his job.
6. A bitter wind was blowing from the north.