Word Meanings - BITTERSWEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence , pleasant but painful.

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• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.