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
Example sentences :
  • 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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