Word Meanings - BITTERSWEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Bitterweed
  A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Sweetbrier
  A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
• Sweetweed
  A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
• AFTERSENSATION
  A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or fol
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Bitterwood
  A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• Sweetened
  of Sweeten
• Sweetwood
  The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)
• AFTERWARDSAFTERWARD
  At a later or succeeding time.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Bitterwort
  The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Sweetening
  of Sweeten
• Sweetwort
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• AFTERWIT
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.
• Afterbirth
  The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

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