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/ˈwə(ɹ)m.wʊd/ · noun
An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic..
But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]
Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wine And one with wormwood.
Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock, elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.
The irony of this reply was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […].
Yet I think the Archdeacon, a "new man," to whom the aristocratic Canon's popularity was wormwood, did dislike him.
Use wormwood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wormwood means An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic..
Common synonyms include common wormwood, grande wormwood, absinthe, mugwort.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!
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