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bittersweet
adjective as in affecting
Weak match
adjective as in poignant
Strongest matches
bitter, disturbing, emotional, heartbreaking, heartrending, moving, passionate, pathetic, sad, sentimental, touching
Weak matches
agitating, agonizing, distressing, impressive, intense, perturbing, piteous, pitiful, sorrowful, upsetting
adjective as in touching
Strong matches
Weak matches
emotive, heart-rending, impressive, mind-blowing, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, responsive, sympathetic, tear-jerking
adjective as in painful
Strongest matches
agonizing, arduous, awful, difficult, dire, distasteful, distressing, excruciating, hard, harrowing, heart-wrenching, hurtful, severe, tedious, terrible, troublesome, uncomfortable, unpleasant
Example Sentences
That’s somewhat bittersweet that those celebrations and ways of bringing people together can’t happen.
A generous amount of chopped bittersweet chocolate is added, and a quick roll in sugar makes them shimmer.
It was a bittersweet moment for Engel-Natzke and her family.
It took connections from the Art Institute and his pieces going viral online for Leonard to eventually land the Netflix deal in August — but it was a bittersweet moment.
It’s a sweet and simple movie with a healthy dose of bittersweet wistfulness for a fading world, and it’s beautiful.
Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.
This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
Other countries understand the bittersweet better than we do.
And the Marc show where the only song was Bittersweet Symphony.
On July 9, South Sudan will mark three years since independence, but any celebration will be bittersweet.
Around the case he planted wild clematis, bittersweet, and wild-grapevines, and trained them over it until it was almost covered.
The flowers are gone, but they were not brighter than the winter berries and bittersweet that glow around one.
It was the Club that decorated the house with brown sedges and stalks of upstanding tawny corn and vines of bittersweet.
Celastrus scandens, more commonly known as bittersweet, is a native vine that can easily be domesticated.
This tiny beak we can readily distinguish bent beneath the body of our bittersweet hopper.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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