If you imagine taking that bitter taste on your tongue and turning it into an emotion, you've got another meaning of bitter: a resentful, angry feeling. And if you turn that bitter flavor into a physical feeling, you've got an adjective that describes a sharp, unpleasant sensation, like a cold, bitter wind.
No. The word bitterly is an adverb.
The adverb form of the adjective bitter is bitterly--a bitterly ironic situation.Most of the time, -ly can be added to adjectives to create adverbs.
She told the truth; albeit bitterly.
No, bitterly modifies a verb making it an adverb.
The opposite of the adverb bitterly is sweetly.The word sweetly is also an adverb.
Amare is Latin for "to love."It's also a passive singular imperative of the same verb, meaing "be loved!"Coincidentally, it's also an adverb meaning "bitterly," or a vocative meaning "O bitter one."(This means that amare amare amare could be translated "Be bitterly loved, O bitter one!")
Today, he talked to me meanly and bitterly.
Bitterly is not a noun, it is an adverb, a word that describes a verb.
The president bitterly denounced the critics of his health care proposals.
Yes, "bitterly" is an adverb. It modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb to indicate that something is done in a bitter or resentful manner. For example, "She cried bitterly when she heard the news."
The doorman complained bitterly about the noise coming from the neighbors' party late at night.
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