bittersweet
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(s) tinged with sadness
- a movie with a bittersweet ending
- (s) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness semisweet,
Nouns
- (n) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade, deadly nightshade,
- (n) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork,