bittersweet

bittersweet is a 11-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
2. noun. Anything which is bittersweet.
3. noun. A kind of apple so called.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds

   Synonyms: waxwork

7. noun. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
8. adjective. tinged with sadness

   "a movie with a bittersweet ending"

9. adjective. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness

   Synonyms: semisweet

Synonyms

waxwork, semisweet

Common word forms

bittersweets, bittersweetly, bittersweetness

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