bitter vs soothing

bitter

adj
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging. 

  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). 

  • Hateful or hostile. 

  • Cynical and resentful. 

noun
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops. 

  • A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic. 

  • A turn of a cable about the bitts. 

  • A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits). 

verb
  • To make bitter. 

soothing

adj
  • Tending to soothe. 

  • Giving relief. 

  • Freeing from fear or anxiety. 

noun
  • The act by which somebody is soothed. 

How often have the words bitter and soothing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )