Word
Bittersweet
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
bit-ter-sweet
Definition
- 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.
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