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Bittersweet   /bˈɪtərswˌit/   Listen
Bittersweet

adjective
1.
Tinged with sadness.
2.
Having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness.  Synonym: semisweet.



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"Bittersweet" Quotes from Famous Books



... who drink life's cup Till they have come to the bitter-sweet: Better at once to toss it up, And trample it beneath the feet; For venom-charged as serpents' eggs 'Tis then, and knows not other change. Early, early, early, have I reached the dregs Of life, and loathe and love the bittersweet, revenge! ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... of the summer was well-nigh past. But the lupin, the moss-pink, and the yellow wallflower, with all the varieties of the helianthus, the aster, and the solidago, spread their gay charms around. The gentlemen gathered clusters of the bittersweet (celastrus scandens) from the overhanging boughs to make a wreath for my hat, as we trod the tangled pathway, which, like ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

... their summer life in great gouts of blood. The birches touch their frail spray with yellow; the chestnuts drop down their leaves in brown, twirling showers. The beeches, crimped with the frost, guard their foliage until each leaf whistles white in the November gales. The bittersweet hangs its bare and leafless tendrils from rock to tree, and sways with the weight of its brazen berries. The sturdy oaks, unyielding to the winds and to the frosts, struggle long against the approaches of the winter, and in their struggles ...
— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell



Words linked to "Bittersweet" :   poisonous nightshade, vine, genus Celastrus, sad, tasty, nightshade, genus Solanum, Solanum, Celastrus



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