Bitter, a.
- 1. Acrid, tasting like wormwood, like gall.
- 2. Fierce, savage, cruel, merciless, relentless, virulent, fell, ruthless, dire.
- 3. Severe, harsh, stern.
- 4. Distressing, painful, grievous, intense, sore, sorrowful, afflictive, poignant, calamitous.
Bitter-apple, n. Colocynth, coloquintida, bitter-cucumber, bitter gourd.
Bitter-cucumber, n. See bitter-apple.
Bittern, n. Butter-bump, miredrum (Botaurus).
Bitterness, n.
- 1. Bitter taste, acridity, acridness.
- 2. Intensity, poignancy, grievousness, severity.
- 3. Spleen, gall, rankling, rancor, heart-burning, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, spite, enmity, ill-will,
bad blood.
- 4. Asperity, acerbity, severity, harshness, acrimony, ill-temper.
- 5. Distress, pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, heaviness, regret, despondency
Bitter-sweet, n. Woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
Bitterwort, n. Yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea).
Bivalve, Bivalved, a. Two-valved, bivalvular.
Bivalvular, a. Two-valved, bivalve(d).
Bivouac, n. and v. n. Halt for the night (without encamping).
Bizarre, a. [Fr.] Odd, fantastic, strange, singular, whimsical, incongruous, extravagant, outlandish.
Blab, v. a. Betray, disclose, reveal, divulge, let out, speak out, prate abroad, tattle abroad.
Blab, v. n. Tattle, prattle, prate, blow, blabber, tell tales, tell a secret, let the cat out of the bag, tell tales out of school.
Blab, n. Prater, tattler, babbler, tell-tale, blabber.