bittersweet •accrete, beat, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat •backbeat • heartbeat • deadbeat •breakbeat • offbeat • browbeat •downbeat • drumbeat • upbeat •sugar beet • Blackfeet • flatfeet •forefeet • exegete • polychaete •lorikeet • parakeet •athlete, biathlete, decathlete, heptathlete, pentathlete, triathlete •kick-pleat • paraclete • obsolete •gamete • crabmeat • sweetmeat •mincemeat • forcemeat • backstreet •concrete • window seat •spreadsheet • mainsheet • flysheet •time sheet • broadsheet •groundsheet • flowsheet • news-sheet •dust sheet • worksheet •aesthete (US esthete) • wholewheat •meadowsweet • buckwheat •bittersweet

bit·ter·sweet / ˈbitərˌswēt/ • adj. (of food, drink, or flavor) sweet with a bitter aftertaste. ∎  arousing pleasure tinged with sadness or pain: bittersweet memories. • n. 1. another term for woody nightshade (see nightshade). 2. a vinelike climbing plant (genus Celastrus, family Celastraceae) that bears clusters of bright orange pods.

bittersweet See nightshade