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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
But despite feeling like she had a "second chance at life", weight loss was bittersweet.
Cambria Harris, Morgan's daughter, said in a Facebook post on Friday that the discovery of her mother's remains was a "very bittersweet moment".
With his movie “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy about a Brooklyn stripper who becomes entangled with the wayward son of a Russian oligarch, Baker won awards for best picture, director, original screenplay and editing.
For the older generation, though, it is a bittersweet moment.
It was a very difficult call to receive, but it was also bittersweet.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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