Bittersweet - English meaning

adjective

(of food or drink) sweet with a bitter aftertaste.

Usage examples:

She sipped the bittersweet drink

adjective

Arousing pleasure tinged with sadness or pain.

Usage examples:

Bittersweet memories of his time in london

noun

Another term for woody nightshade (see nightshade).

noun

An american climbing plant that bears clusters of bright orange pods.

Usage examples:

His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural …

noun

A widely distributed bivalve mollusc which has a pale rounded shell that is typically marked with wavy lines.

Usage examples:

Some of the shells i collected were bittersweets which are also gastropods, but they are considered…

adjective

Containing a mixture of sadness and happiness

Usage examples:

The bittersweet end to the movie is just right.