bitterness

rancœur, amertume

Colère et peine persistantes dues au sentiment d’avoir été traité injustement.

En anglais simple : Anger and hurt that remain because you feel someone treated you unfairly.

• He spoke with bitterness about the divorce.
• Her bitterness faded when they finally apologized.
• Do you still feel bitterness towards him?

Comment l'utiliser : bitterness towards someone (She felt no bitterness towards her former employer.)

Synonymes : resentment, rancor

Expressions courantes : feel bitterness, bitterness towards someone, full of bitterness, bitterness in something

amertume

Goût fort et amer, comme celui du chocolat noir ou du café sans sucre.

En anglais simple : The strong, sharp taste found in foods such as dark chocolate or drinks such as black coffee.

• Sugar reduces the bitterness of coffee.
• The dark chocolate had a pleasant bitterness.
• I could still taste its bitterness after swallowing.

Contraires : sweetness

Expressions courantes : bitterness of coffee, slight bitterness, reduce the bitterness

amertume

Douleur ou tristesse liée à une expérience, surtout à une perte ou à un échec.

En anglais simple : The painful or upsetting quality of an experience, especially a loss or failure.

• She knew the bitterness of defeat.
• Their reunion eased the bitterness of years apart.
• He described the bitterness of losing his home.

Synonymes : pain, harshness

Expressions courantes : bitterness of defeat, bitterness of failure, bitterness of loss