Antonyms for embitterment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : em-bit-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈbɪt ər |
Definition of embitterment
Origin :- c.1600, from em- + bitter. Now rare in its literal sense; figurative meaning first attested 1630s. Related: Embittered.
- noun resentment
- On the way home he continued to murmur murmurs of embitterment to himself.
- Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann
- Embitterment or wildness may exhibit itself, just as sorrow and softness, during the stay under arrest.
- Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
- Street brawls arising out of the embitterment of feeling were not infrequent.
- Extract from : « Count Frontenac » by William Dawson LeSueur
- Limerick is still a cardinal memory in the long story of Irish embitterment.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- The old unhappy loss or want of something had, I am conscious, some place in my heart; but not to the embitterment of my life.
- Extract from : « The Personal History of David Copperfield » by Charles Dickens
- Antagonism would almost inevitably ensue; the more surely as the partners would set out with the embitterment of a divorce.
- Extract from : « Irish History and the Irish Question » by Goldwin Smith
Synonyms for embitterment
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