bittersweet

Speech parts

1. bittersweet - Noun

2. bittersweet - Adjective

3. bittersweet - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

Anything which is bittersweet.

A kind of apple so called.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

waxwork deadly nightshade climbing nightshade semisweet Solanum dulcamara poisonous nightshade American bittersweet Celastrus scandens climbing bittersweet false bittersweet shrubby bittersweet bittersweet nightshade woody nightshade staff vine amber
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Antonyms

white neutral plain pleasing bland tasteless
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Hypernyms

vine nightshade

Phrases with the word

trailing bittersweet bittersweet covering bittersweet comedy

Examples

I was raped by a doctor ... which is so bittersweet for a Jewish girl. Sarah Silverman

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it. Jennifer Morrison

Life at best is bittersweet. Jack Kirby

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing. J. Lynn

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life. Tim Burton

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. Yakov Smirnoff

Close letter words and terms

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