bitterly
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English bitterli, biterli, biterliche, from Old English biterlīċe, bitterlīċe (“bitterly”), equivalent to bitter + -ly. Cognate with German Low German bitterlik (“bitterly”), German bitterlich (“bitterly”), Swedish bitterligen (“bitterly”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɪtəɹli/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɪtəli/
- Hyphenation: bit‧ter‧ly
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Adverb edit
bitterly (comparative more bitterly, superlative most bitterly)
- In a bitter manner.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 91:
- Heidi threw herself down beside Clara's chair and began to cry bitterly.
- 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
- Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.
- Extremely
- 2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- On a bitterly cold evening at Wembley, the Lionesses knew only victory would be enough to keep alive Team GB's hopes of competing in Paris.
Collocations edit
Some adjectives commonly collocating with bitterly:
- bitterly cold
- bitterly disappointed
- bitterly dividing
- bitterly frustrated
Translations edit
in a bitter manner
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