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Bittersweet   /bˈɪtərswˌit/   Listen
Bittersweet

adjective
1.
Tinged with sadness.
2.
Having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness.  Synonym: semisweet.
noun
1.
Poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America.  Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade.
2.
Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.  Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork.



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"Bittersweet" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rivulet loiters and stops, The bittersweet hangs from the tops Of the alders and cherries Its bunches of beautiful ...
— Lyrics of Earth • Archibald Lampman

... help. The hall, the sitting-room, the drawing-room, and even Pitt's particular, out-of-the-way work-room, all were wreathed and adorned and dressed up, each after its manner. For Pitt would not have one place a repetition of another. The bright berries of the winterberry and bittersweet were mingled with the dark shade of the evergreens in many ingenious ways; but the crowning triumph of art, perhaps, to Esther's eyes, was a motto in green letters, picked out with brilliant partridge berries, over the end of the sitting-room,—'Peace on earth.' Esther ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner

... friend now! She could sting, but she could make honey too. Bittersweet. I went with her ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty



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