Thesaurus: bittersweet

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1. a. Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
2. n. Anything which is bittersweet.
3. n. A kind of apple so called.
4. n. 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.
5. n. 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.
6. adj. tinged with sadness
7. adj. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
8. n. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
9. n. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
10. Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. 1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. 3. (Bot.) (a) 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. (b) 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.
11. Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet witha bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
12. j:100 n. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America n. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds s. tinged with sadness