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 

• EMBITTERMENT (noun)

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)