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   Bit·ter·sweet

   /ˈbidərˌswēt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. (of food, drink, or flavor) sweet with a bitter aftertaste.
   • ▪ arousing pleasure tinged with sadness or pain: "the room, with all its bittersweet memories"

   noun

   • 1. another term for woody nightshade (see nightshade)
   • 2. an American climbing plant that bears clusters of bright orange pods.

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   • bringing pleasure mixed with the feeling of being sad (of tastes or smells) bitter and sweet at the same time Definition of bittersweet adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   • bit′ter•sweet′ness, n. any of several North American woody climbing plants of the genus Celastrus, esp C. scandens, having orange capsules that open to expose scarlet-coated seeds: family Celastraceae In Lists: Food tastes and textures, more...

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   What is a bittersweet plant?

   • It is also defined as something nice that has an unpleasant, bitter or distasteful aftertaste."That diet cola was good but I found it bittersweet" This is the bittersweet plant... a poisonous but beautiful shrug which is lovely but is poisonous and as a climber has little spiky bits, hence both sweet (pretty) and bitter (ouch!).

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   • It's always a bittersweet moment. It was a bittersweet moment for Sally. It was an excruciatingly bittersweet moment for Winnie. If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones. [...] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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   bittersweet. bringing pleasure mixed with the feeling of being sad. (of tastes or smells) bitter and sweet at the same time. Definition of bittersweet adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   bittersweet. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Tastes, Odours bit‧ter‧sweet /ˌbɪtəˈswiːt $ -tər-/ adjective 1 feelings, memories, or experiences that are bittersweet are happy and sad at the same time bittersweet memories of childhood 2 a taste or smell that is bittersweet is both sweet and bitter at the ...

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   Britannica Dictionary definition of BITTERSWEET. [more bittersweet; most bittersweet] 1. : having both bitter and sweet flavors. bittersweet chocolate. 2. : combining sadness and happiness. a bittersweet story. bittersweet memories.

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   Definitions of 'bittersweet' 1. If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones. [...] 2. A bittersweet taste seems bitter and sweet at the same time. [...] More. Pronunciations of the word 'bittersweet' British English: bɪtəʳswiːt American English: bɪtərswit. More.

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   What does the word bittersweet mean? There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the word bittersweet, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. bittersweet has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. cider (Middle English) plants (Middle English) See meaning & use.

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   adj. tasting of or being a mixture of bitterness and sweetness. pleasant but tinged with sadness. 'bittersweet' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): aril - climbing bittersweet - copulative - dvandva - exocentric - fever twig - nightshade - waxwork - woody nightshade. In Lists: Food tastes and textures, more...

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   Bittersweet definition: both bitter and sweet to the taste. See examples of BITTERSWEET used in a sentence.