bitterness

resentimiento, amargura

Enfado y dolor que persisten porque uno siente que lo han tratado injustamente.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: bitterness towards someone (She felt no bitterness towards her former employer.)

Sinónimos: resentment, rancor

Expresiones frecuentes: feel bitterness, bitterness towards someone, full of bitterness, bitterness in something

amargor

Sabor intenso y amargo, como el del chocolate negro o el café solo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Antónimos: sweetness

Expresiones frecuentes: bitterness of coffee, slight bitterness, reduce the bitterness

amargura

Dolor o tristeza que causa una experiencia, especialmente una pérdida o un fracaso.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: pain, harshness

Expresiones frecuentes: bitterness of defeat, bitterness of failure, bitterness of loss