bittersweet
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figurative) Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.Examples: "The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over."; "[…] sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. They were, moreover, in the present case, embittered with certain circumstances, which being mixed with sweeter ingredients, tended altogether to compose a draught that might be termed bitter-sweet […]"; "Her eyes still shone upon the ground, and still she prolonged the bittersweet delight at seeing this humiliation of both soul and body by asking the one question whose reply would complete her sad success."figuratively
noun (English)
1. (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.Examples: "Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums."US
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