bitterlybit‧ter‧ly /ˈbɪtəli $ -ər-/ ●●○ adverb 
He complained bitterly about his exam grades. I was bitterly disappointed. The march was bitterly opposed by local residents.2bitterly cold very cold
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- It was a decision that she bitterly regretted later in her life.
- Ross complained bitterly that the state didn't care about the homeless.
- The law was bitterly opposed by environmentalists.
- Even if he cared, he probably wouldn't believe her anyway, she thought bitterly.
- He ignored me, jerked up and down and wailed bitterly as he clung to her.
- How bitterly I thought that night of the happiness I had left that morning!
- It was bitterly cold inside the aluminium hemisphere.
- Republicans reacted bitterly to arrogance, real or imagined, by Democrats and their environmentalists.
- We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
- When we put this strategy into place. it was bitterly opposed by many people.
Longman Language Activatorextremely cold weather
extremely cold, so that water turns to ice: · The freezing weather continued all through February.it's freezing/freezing cold: · How can you stand to be out here without a coat? It's freezing!
extremely cold so that it almost hurts you to be outdoors: · We arrived in Chicago during the bitterly cold winter of 1935.· a bitter east windit's bitterly cold: · Don't go out tonight. It's bitterly cold.
: arctic conditions/winds/chill extremely cold, usually with ice and snow: · I wouldn't take the car out in these arctic conditions.· He could feel the arctic chill creeping into the cabin.
temperatures that are very cold and below the point at which water freezes: · Subzero temperatures can be expected for the next few days.· Thousands of refugees are spending tonight on a mountainside in subzero temperatures.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He complained bitterly about his exam grades. I was bitterly disappointed. The march was bitterly opposed by local residents.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Alan was deeply ashamed when he remembered what he’d said. The girl’s parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury’s verdict. She bitterly resented his mother’s influence over him.
He complained bitterly about his exam grades. I was bitterly disappointed. The march was bitterly opposed by local residents. Alan was deeply ashamed when he remembered what he’d said. (=very cold)· The winter of 1921 was bitterly cold.
(=in a very angry way)· My grandfather’s always complaining bitterly about how expensive things are.
(=because you feel angry or hurt)· I no longer felt brave or strong, and I began to cry bitterly.
The girl’s parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury’s verdict. (=with a feeling of great sadness)· I bitterly regretted my decision to leave.
She bitterly resented his mother’s influence over him. (=crying hard)· I heard the sound of a woman weeping bitterly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed.· All the people of Sligo feel bitterly ashamed for what happened.· She was amazed by her own behaviour and between episodes was bitterly ashamed of what was happening to her.· She felt bitterly ashamed of the way she'd fallen into Rohan's arms.
· I wasn't annoyed except that it was bitterly cold, freezing.· And Robbo, fresh at Sale from league outfit Wigan, injected his own style on a bitterly cold afternoon.· It was a Friday and bitterly cold.· It was bitterly cold and it was raining.· It was bitterly cold, and Killion wore Dickinson's tunic.· When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.· On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.· The air was bitterly cold and still, with the peculiar lifelessness that pervaded closed-off places.
· Our younger child was bitterly disappointed when shown the discreet little warning notices.· The local residents were bitterly disappointed with the decision.· Although the victor of a battle at sea, Edward returned home a bitterly disappointed man.
VERB· If you find it, Corbett added bitterly to himself.
· In 1987, when an interim report was issued, scientists and environmentalists bitterly attacked its conclusions as misrepresenting the facts.
· The boys gasped, wheezed and giggled; the plumper ones complained bitterly.· He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.· Student B immediately slams it shut, complaining bitterly of hay fever.· He complained bitterly of the small attention that was paid to his ideas in his own country.· Lewis-Ann sat under a huge umbrella, fully clothed, complaining bitterly about being too hot.· Norah complained bitterly that her style had brought the company free publicity worth far more than it cost.· And he complains bitterly that exhaustive health tests were not done years ago.· We all complained bitterly when it looked as though Adobe was restricting the development of PostScript and keeping the market to itself.
· Lincoln's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly.· Denney created an atmosphere of strict discipline that was resented and bitterly contested by patients for years.
· Bathsheba sat and cried bitterly over this letter.· She knelt down by the low window, put her head on her arms and cried bitterly.· I no longer felt strong or calm, and I began to cry bitterly.
· Henman will be bitterly disappointed but scarcely surprised.· In this he was bitterly disappointed.· Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths' reaction to his innovation.· At the time I was bitterly disappointed.· She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof.· If so, they must have been bitterly disappointed.· Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
· The issue has bitterly divided the community surrounding the common ever since the complex was first mooted.· Other Republicans say the failure of their first package has left them bitterly divided over what strategy to follow now.· Maybe it was because the season began with players bitterly divided over a new collective bargaining agreement.
· We fight bitterly over the remaining pieces of the old world.
· In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.· When we put this strategy into place. it was bitterly opposed by many people.· Its members have been responsible for some of the worst atrocities during the Troubles and bitterly oppose any decommissioning.· Republicans bitterly oppose sampling, saying it invents people for Democratic benefit.· His strategy of seeking an accommodation with Labour was bitterly opposed by many Liberals.· It was difficult working at central office among people who had bitterly opposed our plan.· Consequently it was bitterly opposed by some of the bishops.
· It was an agreement that Lear was to regret bitterly in later years.· Many who have left the Association already bitterly regret it.· They had rushed into it too quickly, and lived to bitterly regret their impulsiveness.
· The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters.· It was a change Rory regretted bitterly.· Charles bitterly regretted having allowed the cameras in.· Indeed, he regretted bitterly that his attempts to establish a sixth form in the school had been so abortive.· The court heard both men bitterly regretted what happened.
· Everything about him assailed her senses in a way she resented bitterly yet seemed unable to do anything about.· The blacks bitterly resented being searched and insisted on their innocence.· But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference.· In government, it is a control function-and managers bitterly resent it.· It hadn't been her imagination, and she bitterly resented the hypocrisy of his charge.· She bitterly resented her husband's domination by his younger brother.· This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king's subjects.
· Ordered, they said bitterly, and never collected.
· Just like all the rest, she thought bitterly.· Still, I thought bitterly, Frank would find truth in what I had written.· Now that I was alone I thought bitterly of the people I lived with.· Instead, I thought bitterly, I sewed on, with my skin whole and I sewed for strangers.· Even if he cared, he probably wouldn't believe her anyway, she thought bitterly.· Easy for them to say, she thought bitterly.· Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila's purposes.· Ray Doyle thought bitterly as the telephone began to ring, jarringly loud, across the room.
· Ana had wept bitterly and Mitch had stated quite categorically that he would be back.· According to Leopold, young Thomas wept bitterly when the time came to part.· I was weeping bitterly for most of the time.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1in a way that produces or shows feelings of great sadness or anger: - He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow.
- I wasn't annoyed except that it was bitterly cold, freezing.
- It is bitterly cold outside today, but probably not cold enough to trigger the payments.
- It was bitterly cold and it was raining.
- It was a Friday and bitterly cold.
- On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.
- We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
- When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.
He complained bitterly about his exam grades. I was bitterly disappointed. The march was bitterly opposed by local residents.2bitterly cold very cold- counter-espionage
- counterfeit
- counterfeiter
- counterfoil
- counterinsurgency
- counterintelligence
- countermand
- countermeasure
- counterpane
- counterpart
- counterpoint
- counterproductive
- counter-revolution
- counter-revolutionary
- countersign
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- counter-terrorism
- counter-terrorist
- countervailing
- countess
- counting house
- countless
- count noun
- countrified
- country