1. bittersweet - Noun
2. bittersweet - Adjective
3. bittersweet - Adjective Satellite
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 dictionaryI 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