bitter vs sweet
Definitions
adjective
- very difficult to accept or bear
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
noun
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
verb
- make bitter
adverb
- extremely and sharply
Examples
This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner?
Definitions
adjective
- with sweetening added
- not containing or composed of salt water
- not soured or preserved
- pleasing to the senses
- having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
noun
- a food rich in sugar
- a dish served as the last course of a meal
- the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
- the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
adverb
- in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
Examples
Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time?
As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland.
Basically, it is a fish stew mixed with squash, sweet potatoes, okra, tamarind, and different kinds of peppers.
