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Meaning of 'bittersweet' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bittersweet [ a.]
- Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
2 . Bittersweet [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'bittersweet' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . bittersweet [ s]
Meaning (1):
- tinged with sadness
Example in sentence:
  • a movie with a bittersweet ending

Nearby Words:

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