bitterlyとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪtəɹli/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪtəli/
• ハイフネーション: bit‧ter‧ly

副詞

bitterly (comparative more bitterly, superlative most bitterly)

1. In a bitter manner.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

   • 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 91:

     Heidi threw herself down beside Clara's chair and began to cry bitterly.

   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

     Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.

Collocations

Some adjectives commonly collocating with profusely:

• bitterly cold
• bitterly disappointed
• bitterly dividing
• bitterly frustrated