BITTERSWEET
\bˈɪtəswˌiːt], \bˈɪtəswˌiːt], \b_ˈɪ_t_ə_s_w_ˌiː_t]\
Definitions of BITTERSWEET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
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poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
By Princeton University
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having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
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poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
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Anything which is bittersweet.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
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Anything which is bittersweet.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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