Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
- 2noun
Anything which is bittersweet.
- 3noun
A kind of apple so called.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
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- 7noun
poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
- 8adjective
tinged with sadness
"a movie with a bittersweet ending"
- 9adjective
having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
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