Bittersweet Definition
bĭtər-swēt
adjective
Bitter and sweet at the same time.
Bittersweet chocolate.
American Heritage
Both bitter and sweet, as dark chocolate made with little sugar.
Webster's New World
Producing or expressing a mixture of pain and pleasure.
A movie with a bittersweet ending.
American Heritage
Pleasant with overtones of sadness.
Webster's New World
Dark to deep reddish-orange.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
Any of various woody vines of the genus Celastrus, especially C. scandens, native to North America, and C. orbiculata, an eastern Asian species that is widespread in North America, having small, round, yellow-orange fruits that open at maturity to expose red seeds.
American Heritage
A North American twining woody vine (Celastrus scandens) of the staff-tree family, with poisonous leaves, and bearing clusters of small orange fruits with bright-red fleshy seeds.
Webster's New World
A dark to deep reddish orange.
American Heritage
A poisonous, climbing European vine (Solanum dulcamara) of the nightshade family, with purple flowers and red berries, now widely found as a weed in North America.
Webster's New World
Bitterness and sweetness combined.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- solanum-dulcamara
- poisonous nightshade
- deadly-nightshade
- woody-nightshade
- climbing-nightshade
- bittersweet nightshade
- Celastrus scandens
- waxwork
- staff vine
- false bittersweet
- shrubby bittersweet
- climbing bittersweet
- American bittersweet
Other Word Forms of Bittersweet
Noun
Singular:
bittersweet
Plural:
bittersweets
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