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

1 sense of bitters

Sense 1
bitters -- (alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots)
       => liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink -- (an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented)

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

3 senses of bitter

Sense 1
bitter -- (English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft))
       => ale -- (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)

Sense 2
bitter, bitterness -- (the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth)
       => taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception -- (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste")

Sense 3
bitterness, bitter -- (the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste)
       => taste property -- (a property appreciated via the sense of taste)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bitter

1 sense of bitter

Sense 1
bitter -- (make bitter)
       => change taste -- (alter the flavor of)