bit´ter|sweet´ness

bit´ter|sweet´ness
bit|ter|sweet «BIHT uhr SWEET», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a climbing plant with purple, blue, or white flowers and small, poisonous, scarlet berries; woody nightshade. It belongs to the nightshade family.
2. a climbing shrub of North America with greenish flowers and orange seed cases that open and show red seeds; false bittersweet. It belongs to the staff-tree family.
3. sweetness and bitterness mixed: »

Figurative. 'Tis something like Love, a kinde of bittersweet (Owen Feltham).

4. Chinese red.
–adj.
1. sweet and bitter mixed: »

bittersweet chocolate.

2. Figurative. pleasant and painful at once: »

The movie had a bittersweet ending which left her uncertain whether to laugh or cry. It awakes all the fountains of bittersweet memory (George Brimley).

bit´ter|sweet´ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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