The adjective bittersweet describes a taste that is a blend of bitter and sweet. Bittersweet chocolate, for example, contains more chocolate and less sugar than milk chocolate or even semisweet chocolate.
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Noun
twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
Noun
poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
Adjective S.
tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"
Adjective S.
having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
a.
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp.
sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
n.
Anything which is bittersweet.
n.
A kind of apple so called.
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.
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.
Bittersweet
Bittersweet
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Anything which is bittersweet.
Usage Examples
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
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