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synonyms for bittersweet
- bitter
- disturbing
- emotional
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- moving
- passionate
- pathetic
- sad
- sentimental
- touching
- agitating
- agonizing
- distressing
- impressive
- intense
- perturbing
- piteous
- pitiful
- sorrowful
- upsetting
- heartbreaking
- pathetic
- poignant
- sad
- stirring
- stunning
- wistful
- compassionate
- melting
- tender
- emotive
- heart-rending
- impressive
- mind-blowing
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- responsive
- sympathetic
- tear-jerking
- agonizing
- arduous
- awful
- difficult
- dire
- distasteful
- distressing
- excruciating
- hard
- harrowing
- heart-wrenching
- hurtful
- severe
- tedious
- terrible
- troublesome
- uncomfortable
- unpleasant
- aching
- afflictive
- biting
- burning
- caustic
- disagreeable
- dreadful
- extreme
- extremely bad
- grievous
- hurting
- inflamed
- irritated
- laborious
- piercing
- raw
- saddening
- sensitive
- sharp
- smarting
- sore
- stinging
- tender
- throbbing
- tormenting
- trying
- vexatious
On this page you'll find 127 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bittersweet, such as: poignant, stirring, touching, and arousing affect.
antonyms for bittersweet
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- cheerful
- happy
- indifferent
- unemotional
- unmoving
- wonderful
- blah
- blunt
- calm
- dull
- numb
- pleasant
- soothing
- agreeable
- calm
- easy
- facile
- friendly
- good
- great
- helpful
- mild
- nice
- pleasant
- pleasing
- simple
- wonderful
- delightful
- painless
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That’s somewhat bittersweet that those celebrations and ways of bringing people together can’t happen.
‘BILLS MAFIA’ WAITED A GENERATION FOR A TEAM LIKE THIS. IT’S HAD TO EMBRACE IT FROM AFAR.ADAM KILGOREJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA generous amount of chopped bittersweet chocolate is added, and a quick roll in sugar makes them shimmer.
CARAMELIZED BANANA CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES ARE THE NEW BEST USE FOR THE REST OF THAT BUNCHJESSE SZEWCZYKDECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt was a bittersweet moment for Engel-Natzke and her family.
EMILY ENGEL-NATZKE’S DAD WAS HER ‘BIGGEST FAN.’ HE DIED OF COVID-19 BEFORE HER HOCKEY TRIUMPH.SAMANTHA PELLNOVEMBER 20, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt 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.
TURNING CHILDREN’S DISABILITIES INTO SUPERPOWERSJOSHUA EFERIGHEOCTOBER 15, 2020OZYIt’s a sweet and simple movie with a healthy dose of bittersweet wistfulness for a fading world, and it’s beautiful.
11 COMPELLING DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH FOR THIS FALLALISSA WILKINSONOCTOBER 9, 2020VOXAround the case he planted wild clematis, bittersweet, and wild-grapevines, and trained them over it until it was almost covered.
FRECKLESGENE STRATTON-PORTERThe flowers are gone, but they were not brighter than the winter berries and bittersweet that glow around one.
IN NEW ENGLAND FIELDS AND WOODSROWLAND E. ROBINSONIt was the Club that decorated the house with brown sedges and stalks of upstanding tawny corn and vines of bittersweet.
ETHEL MORTON AND THE CHRISTMAS SHIPMABELL S. C. SMITHCelastrus scandens, more commonly known as bittersweet, is a native vine that can easily be domesticated.
ABC OF GARDENINGEBEN EUGENE REXFORDThis tiny beak we can readily distinguish bent beneath the body of our bittersweet hopper.
MY STUDIO NEIGHBORSWILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSONWORDS RELATED TO BITTERSWEET
- bittersweet
- bloodshot
- blooming
- blush
- brick
- burgundy
- cardinal
- carmine
- cerise
- cherry
- chestnut
- claret
- copper
- coral
- crimson
- dahlia
- flaming
- florid
- flushed
- fuchsia
- garnet
- geranium
- glowing
- healthy
- inflamed
- infrared
- magenta
- maroon
- pink
- puce
- rose
- roseate
- rosy
- rubicund
- ruby
- ruddy
- rufescent
- russet
- rust
- salmon
- sanguine
- scarlet
- titian
- vermilion
- wine
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.