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What (who) is BITTERSWEET - definition
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bittersweet
also bitter-sweet
1.
If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
...bittersweet memories of his first appearance for the team.
ADJ
2.
A bittersweet taste seems bitter and sweet at the same time.
...a wine with a bitter-sweet flavour.
ADJ
Bittersweet
·noun A kind of apple so called.
II. Bittersweet ·noun Anything which is bittersweet.
III. Bittersweet ·adj Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; ·esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
IV. Bittersweet ·noun 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.
V. Bittersweet ·noun 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.
bittersweet
¦ adjective
1. sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
2. arousing pleasure tinged with sadness or pain.
¦ noun
1. another term for woody nightshade.
2. a vine-like American climbing plant bearing clusters of bright orange pods. [Celastrus scandens and other species.]
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Bittersweet
Bittersweet, bitter-sweet, or bitter sweet may refer to:
Examples of use of BITTERSWEET
1. For the bittersweet story of Karzai is also the bittersweet story of the Western involvement with Afghanistan.
2. Thomas Fritsch, was "bittersweet" for his parents.
3. Every day, someone has a similar bittersweet story.
4. "Thank you, Jesus!" For Mark Rowland, the leaving was bittersweet.
5. But their joy was bittersweet: Jobs for graduates are scarce.