'bitter pill' definitions:
Synonyms of 'bitter pill'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acerbity,
- acridity,
- acridness,
- affliction,
- astringence,
- astringency,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitterness,
- burden,
- burden of care,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- causticity,
- cross,
- crown of thorns,
- curse,
- distress,
- encumbrance,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- grievance,
- infliction,
- load,
- oppression,
- pack of troubles,
- peck of troubles,
- pungency,
- sea of troubles,
- sharpness,
- sorrow,
- sourness,
- tartness,
- thorn,
- trouble,
- waters of bitterness,
- weight,
- woe