Bitter and Hard

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Bitter adjective - Having or showing deep-seated resentment.

Usage example: she's still bitter about the way her boyfriend broke up with her

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Hard is a synonym for bitter in attitude topic. In some cases you can use "Hard" instead the word "Bitter" as an adjective or an adverb, when it comes to topics like comfort, painful, severe, grievous.

Nearby Words: bitterness, bitterly, bittern, bitterish

Hard adjective - Difficult to endure.

Usage example: the hard life of a migrant farm worker

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Bitter is a synonym for hard in attitude topic. You can use "Bitter" instead the word "Hard" as an adjective or an adverb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as comfort, cruel, bitterly cold.

Nearby Words: harden, hardship, hardy, hardly, hardness

He Who Fights Monsters: Max becomes a hard and bitter man by the end of the film due to his battles with criminals.

Source: Film / Mad Max
In The Heir to Prince Manor Harry developed a craving for merlinnas, an incredibly delicious faery fruit - but only if you picked it at dawn; any other time and it would be hard and bitter.

Source: Impossibly Delicious Food
Stannis Baratheon is a hard and bitter man, and to reflect this, he drinks plain water with a pinch of salt.

Source: Drink Order

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