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bittersweet
adjective as in affecting
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adjective as in poignant
Strongest matches
bitter, disturbing, emotional, heartbreaking, heartrending, moving, passionate, pathetic, sad, sentimental, touching
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agitating, agonizing, distressing, impressive, intense, perturbing, piteous, pitiful, sorrowful, upsetting
adjective as in touching
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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
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Example Sentences
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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On this page you'll find 127 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bittersweet, such as: poignant, stirring, touching, and arousing affect.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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