bittersweet

bittersweet has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
• n.. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
• a.. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"
• a.. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness