bittersweet chocolate

1. 1.

   chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin is usually added

   Synonymssemi-sweet chocolatedark chocolate

   Broaderchocolate

Questions about bittersweet chocolate

What does bittersweet chocolate mean?

bittersweet chocolate means "chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin is usually added".

What is another word for bittersweet chocolate?

Close synonyms include semi-sweet chocolate, dark chocolate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bittersweet chocolate a common word?

bittersweet chocolate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.