Bittersweet definition
Both bitter and sweet, as dark chocolate made with little sugar.
adjective
Producing or expressing a mixture of pain and pleasure.
A movie with a bittersweet ending.
adjective
The definition of bittersweet is a combination of both bitter and sweet, or an emotional feeling that is a mixture of both happy and sad.
An example of bittersweet is chocolate made with only a small amount of sugar.
An example of bittersweet is graduation from college.
adjective
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.
noun
Bitter and sweet at the same time.
Bittersweet chocolate.
adjective
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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.
noun
Pleasant with overtones of sadness.
adjective
Bittersweet is defined as a climbing plant in the nightshade family or Celastrus genus, or the emotion that joins joy and sadness.
An example of bittersweet is a woody nightshade vine with small orange fruits.
An example of bittersweet is the state of ending college.
noun
Dark to deep reddish-orange.
adjective
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.
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A dark to deep reddish orange.
noun
Pleasure mixed with overtones of sadness.
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The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.
adjective
The bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara.
noun
Bitterness and sweetness combined.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
bittersweet
Plural:
bittersweets