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Unembittered

adj.resilient, kindliterary

What it means

Not made resentful by injury, unfairness, or disappointment.

Reach for it when Honoring someone who retains generosity after being wronged.

Unembittered by the selection result, she mentored the person who won.

Choose between these

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  • everyday

    good-humored

    temper remains friendly after inconvenience

    not when too light for serious injustice

  • warm

    forgiving

    the person releases blame toward an offender

    not when unembittered does not require granting forgiveness

  • professional

    gracious

    conduct remains courteous after disappointment

    not when politeness can conceal continuing resentment

  • formal

    unresentful

    absence of a grievance is the exact point

    not when less expressive about surviving hardship

  • literary

    magnanimous

    generosity toward a rival deserves high praise

    not when stronger than simply avoiding bitterness

Said against

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  • embittered
  • resentful
  • vindictive

It naturally appears in

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  • remain unembittered

    She remained unembittered and helped document the flawed process.

  • remarkably unembittered

    Years later, he sounded remarkably unembittered about the lost opportunity.

  • unembittered response

    Her unembittered response opened space for an honest apology.

Where this comes from

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.