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EMBITTERMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embitterment mean?
• EMBITTERMENT (noun)
The noun EMBITTERMENT has 1 sense:
1. the state of being embittered
Familiarity information: EMBITTERMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being embittered
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him
Hypernyms ("embitterment" is a kind of...):
unhappiness (state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief)
Derivation:
embitter (cause to be bitter or resentful)
Context examples
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.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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