embittering

The word “embittering” has 4 syllables: em-bit-ter-ing

It's pronounced as /ɛmˈbɪtərɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for embittering?

In the thesaurus, “embittering” has 15 synonyms and 9 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for embittering along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for embittering

  • aggravating
  • alienating
  • angering
  • antagonizing
  • curdling
  • disaffecting
  • disgruntling
  • empoisoning
  • enraging
  • envenoming
  • estranging
  • incensing
  • infuriating
  • maddening
  • souring

Antonyms for embittering

  • appeasing
  • assuaging
  • endearing
  • ingratiating
  • mollifying
  • pacifying
  • placating
  • propitiating
  • sweetening

Meanings of embittering

  • verb
    1. To cause to be bitter.
  • noun
    1. Embitterment.

Example Sentences

  • The constant rejection was embittering her toward the entire industry.
  • His failure to achieve recognition was slowly embittering his once cheerful nature.
  • The long, drawn-out legal battle was embittering the two former friends.
  • She found the lack of support from her team embittering and disheartening.
  • The unfair treatment at work kept embittering his attitude over time.

On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to embittering, such as: aggravating, alienating, angering, antagonizing, appeasing, assuaging, curdling.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

maddening

  • abrasive
  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitating
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • biting
  • bothering
  • bothersome
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • burdensome
  • carking
  • chafing
  • confusing
  • cracking
  • crazing
  • crossing
  • deranging
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • distracting
  • distractive
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • embittering
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • envenoming
  • exasperating
  • frenzying
  • frustrating
  • galling
  • getting
  • grating
  • huffing
  • importunate
  • importune
  • incensing
  • inconveniencing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • iring
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jangling
  • jarring
  • locoing
  • madding
  • miffing
  • mischievous
  • nettlesome
  • nettling
  • offending
  • offensive
  • outraging
  • painful
  • peeving
  • perturbing
  • pesky
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • pesty
  • piquing
  • plaguey
  • plaguy
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • rankling
  • rebarbative
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • spiny
  • steaming up
  • stressful
  • thorny
  • ticking off
  • tiresome
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • unbalancing
  • unhinging
  • unsettling
  • unstringing
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • worrisome

madding

  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitated
  • angering
  • angry
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • berserk
  • beside oneself
  • corybantic
  • crazy
  • crossing
  • delirious
  • deranged
  • distraught
  • embittering
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • envenoming
  • exasperating
  • excited
  • flipped-out
  • frantic
  • fraught
  • freaked-out
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • furious
  • getting
  • hectic
  • hot and bothered
  • hot under the collar
  • huffing
  • hyper
  • hysterical
  • in a stew
  • in a tizzy
  • incensing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • insane
  • iring
  • irritating
  • mad
  • maddening
  • miffing
  • nettling
  • offending
  • out of control
  • outraging
  • overwrought
  • panic-stricken
  • peeving
  • piquing
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • rabid
  • raging
  • rankling
  • raving
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • shook-up
  • steaming up
  • ticking off
  • unglued
  • unscrewed
  • unzipped
  • vexing
  • violent
  • weird
  • weirded out
  • wigged out
  • wild
  • wired
  • worked-up
  • zonkers

rankling

  • abrasive
  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitating
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • biting
  • boiling
  • bothersome
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • bristling
  • burdensome
  • burning
  • carking
  • chafing
  • convulsing
  • crossing
  • discomforting
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • distractive
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • embittering
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • envenoming
  • exasperating
  • foaming
  • fretting
  • frustrating
  • fulminating
  • fuming
  • galling
  • getting
  • grating
  • huffing
  • importunate
  • importune
  • incensing
  • inconveniencing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • iring
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jangling
  • jarring
  • maddening
  • madding
  • miffing
  • mischievous
  • nettlesome
  • nettling
  • offending
  • offensive
  • outraging
  • painful
  • peeving
  • pesky
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • pesty
  • piquing
  • plaguey
  • plaguy
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • raging
  • ranting
  • raving
  • rebarbative
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • shaking
  • sizzling
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • spiny
  • steaming
  • steaming up
  • stewing
  • storming
  • stressful
  • thorny
  • ticking off
  • tiresome
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trying
  • upsetting
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • worrisome

onerous

  • agonizing
  • arduous
  • austere
  • backbreaking
  • bad
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bleak
  • brutal
  • burdensome
  • challenging
  • comfortless
  • cruel
  • crushing
  • cumbersome
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • disagreeable
  • discomforting
  • distressing
  • embittering
  • exacting
  • excessive
  • excruciating
  • exhausting
  • exigent
  • fatiguing
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • galling
  • grave
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grinding
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • hard
  • hardhanded
  • harrowing
  • harsh
  • headache
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • heavy
  • herculean
  • hostile
  • inclement
  • inhospitable
  • inhuman
  • insufferable
  • insupportable
  • intemperate
  • intolerable
  • irksome
  • killing
  • laborious
  • merciless
  • murderous
  • oppressive
  • overpowering
  • overtaxing
  • overwhelming
  • painful
  • persnickety
  • plodding
  • ponderous
  • pressing
  • responsible
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • rough
  • rugged
  • searing
  • serious
  • severe
  • spartan
  • stern
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • strict
  • stringent
  • taxing
  • testing
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • toilsome
  • tortuous
  • tough
  • troublesome
  • trying
  • unbearable
  • uncomfortable
  • unendurable
  • unfriendly
  • unpleasant
  • vexatious
  • wearing
  • weighty
  • wild
  • wretched

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