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bittersweet

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Both bitter and sweet. 2 Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure. 3 Of a bittersweet color. n. 1 A vine, of the genus (taxlink Celastrus genus noshow=1), having small orange fruits that open to reveal red seeds. 2 The (vern: bittersweet ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Bittersweet " is a song by British singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor , written by Sophie Ellis-Bextor , James Wiltshire , Russell Small , Richard Stannard and Hannah Robinson for Ellis-Bextor's fourth studio album Make a Scene . The song was released ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staff \Staff\ (st[.a]f), n.; pl. Staves (st[=a]vz or st[aum]vz; 277) or Staffs (st[.a]fs) in senses 1-9, Staffs in senses 10, 1 [AS. st[ae]f a staff; akin to LG. & D. staf, OFries. stef, G. stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bitter-sweet , late 14c. as a noun; used especially in Middle English of a type of apple, from bitter (adj.) + sweet (adj.). As an adjective, attested from 1610s.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending" having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness [syn: semisweet ]

Usage examples of bittersweet.

The ice cream was heavenly, superfatted and smooth, and the chocolate exquisitely light and bittersweet.

The scent of lilacs floated to Mike in a wave that colored his night with way too many bittersweet memories.

In what is always a bittersweet moment in the history of Communist regimes, Stalin would soon direct his savagery toward the intellectuals.

He looked to his scimitars and was flooded by the bittersweet memories of the last time he had put them to use.

Tom checked the bittersweet chocolate he was melting in the top of our double boiler.

Twelve hours without a free moment to think about Zack, to review its bittersweet memories, to replenish forces, to try to put in order its thoughts.

Nor could she bring Justin with her that would bring the media wolf pack howling at their heelsnor could she perform the bittersweet task by telephone.

She paused again, this time to swallow against the bittersweet taste of painful memories.

All the memories surfaced, glorious, bringing with them a bittersweet feeling akin to love.

She nearly dropped a loaf of bread as she recognized the emotion that filled her heart, with both joy and bittersweet pain.

After bittersweet farewells, he slung his pack over his back and followed Chatelaine Dhuoda and her retinue out of the village, into the world beyond.

A bittersweet passage, Ferries ev'rywhere upon that cold and cloud-torn Styx, Bells dolefully a-bang in the Murk, strange little gaff-rigg'd coasters and lighters veering all over the Water, stack'd high abovedecks with Cargo, a prosperous Hell.

Somewhere, along the Avenida Quintana, a man played a bandoneon, squeezing out a typical tango melody, infused with the bittersweet essences of Latin macho, unrequited love, and blood vengeance.

The two blood-brothers tall and small felt to the full then the intoxication of the fog, its surging bittersweet touch-song of hate, its hot promises of all bloodlusts forever fulfilled, an uninhibited eternity of murder-madness.

The eagerness, the bittersweet sense of homecoming, that flickered around his calm logic were Christian Brannock's.