Bittersweet
Bit´ter`sweet`
| a. | 1. | Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful. |
| n. | 1. | Anything which is bittersweet. |
| 2. | A kind of apple so called. | |
| 3. | (Bot.) 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 |
| Noun | 1. |  bittersweet - poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America |
| 2. | bittersweet - twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | |
| Adj. | 1. | bittersweet - tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending" |
| 2. | bittersweet - having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness Synonyms: semisweet |