bittersweet
adjective
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tinged with sadnessโa movie with a bittersweet endingโ
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having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetnesssemisweet
noun
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twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seedswaxworkclimbing bittersweetfalse bittersweetstaff vineshrubby bittersweet
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poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berriesbittersweet nightshade