Definitions for bitters

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Spelling: [bit-erz]

IPA: /ˈbɪt ərz/

Bitters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in bitters (beirstt).

Definitions for bitters

noun

1. a liquid, often an alcoholic liquor, in which bitter herbs or roots have steeped, used as a flavoring, especially in mixed drinks, or as a tonic.
2. Pharmacology. a liquid, usually alcoholic, impregnated with a bitter medicine, as gentian or quassia, used to increase the appetite or as a tonic. bitter medicinal substances in general, as quinine.
3. that which is bitter; bitterness:
4. British. a very dry ale having a strong taste of hops.

adverb

1. extremely; very; exceedingly:

adjective

1. having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
2. producing one of the four basic taste sensations; not sour, sweet, or salt.
3. hard to bear; grievous; distressful:
4. causing pain; piercing; stinging:
5. characterized by intense antagonism or hostility:
6. hard to admit or accept:
7. resentful or cynical:

verb (used with object)

1. to make bitter:

Origin of bitters

First recorded in 1705-15; bitter + -s³

Examples for bitters

Chalybeates, bitters, and opium, after sufficient evacuation.

He adds two dashes of Peychaud's bitters, one shot of Los Tigres de la Ira's Suisse verte, some lemon juice, and an egg white.

He dashes in a few drops of bitters, and then gently crushes the sugar with a muddler.

His phrase was, 'Your bitters, sir, leave no bad flavor behind them.'

“Within its 1806 embodiment of the cocktail incarnate—spirit, sweetner, bitters, water—there is traditionalism,” Simonson writes.

This I promise you: you shall taste all of life's sweets and escape all bitters.

He makes me a 20's Sazerac with Jack Daniels, Peychaud's bitters, simple syrup, and local Tigre de la Ira absinthe.

Its ingredients were one drop of bitters and the remainder, poor liquor.

Some said her bitters tasted sweet,And some pronounced her pills delightful.

"Almost all of the bitters, whiskeys, or absinthes you see in Buenos Aires are illegal," he says.