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English
Etymology
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
Adverb
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.
- Extremely
2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport: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
Some adjectives commonly collocating with bitterly:
- bitterly cold
- bitterly disappointed
- bitterly dividing
- bitterly frustrated
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