Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bitter_end

2 senses of bitter end

Sense 1
bitter end -- (the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be); "he was determined to fight to the bitter end")
       => extremity -- (an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease))

Sense 2
bitter end -- ((nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt)
       => end, terminal -- (either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix")