sweet
Adjective
(
er)
Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- a sweet apple
Having a taste of sugar.
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
- Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
Not having a salty taste.
- sweet butter
* 1821 , Robert Thomas, The modern practice of physic
- Nothing has been found so effectual for preserving water sweet at sea, during long voyages, as charring the insides of the casks well before they are filled.
Having a pleasant smell.
- a sweet scent
* Longfellow
- The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- sweet milk
Having a pleasant sound.
- a sweet tune
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
- a voice sweet , tremulous, but powerful
Having a pleasing disposition.
- a sweet child
Having a helpful disposition.
- It was sweet of him to help out.
(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
- The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
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(informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
- The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.
(obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
- sweet water
- (Francis Bacon)
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
- a sweet''' face; a '''sweet colour or complexion
* Milton
- Sweet interchange / Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
Synonyms
* (having a taste of sugar) saccharine, sugary
* (containing a sweetening ingredient) sugared, sweetened
* (not having a salty taste) fresh, unsalty
* (having a pleasant smell) fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling
* fresh, unfermented, wholesome
* (having a pleasant sound) dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant
* (having a pleasing disposition) cute, lovable, pleasant
* (having a helpful disposition) kind, gracious, helpful, sensitive, thoughtful
* rad, awesome, wicked
Antonyms
* (having a pleasant taste) bitter, sour, salty
* (containing a sweetening ingredient) nonsweet, sugarless, unsugared, unsweetened, unsweet
* dry
* decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, stale
* (not having a salty taste) salty, savoury
* (free from excessive unwanted substances) sour
* lame, uncool
Derived terms
* bittersweet
* boiled sweet
* flower-sweet
* honey-sweet
* meadowsweet
* semisweet
* short and sweet
* sickeningly sweet
* sickly sweet/sickly-sweet
* sugar-sweet
* sweet action
* (
sweet alison)
* (
sweet almond)
* (
sweet alyssum)
* sweet and sour
* sweet as
* sweet as a nut
* sweet as pie
* sweet ball
* (
sweet balm)
* sweet basil
* sweet bay
* (
sweet bells)
* sweet birch
* sweet bread
* sweetbread
* sweet-breasted
* (
sweetbriar)
* (
sweet calabash)
* (
sweet cassava)
* sweet cheeks
* sweet cherry
* sweet chocolate
* (
sweet cicely)
* sweet cider
* (
sweet clover)
* (
sweet coltsfoot)
* sweet corn/sweet-corn/sweetcorn
* sweet cream
* sweet cup
* sweet dreams
* (
sweet elder)
* sweeten
* sweetener
* sweet FA
* (
sweet fern)
* sweet flag
* (
vern,
sweet four o'clock)
* sweet gale
* (
sweet goldenrod)
* sweet grass
* sweet gum tree
* sweet hereafter
* sweet iron
* sweetish
* sweetkin
* sweet leaf
* sweet lemon
* (
sweet lime)
* sweetly
* (
sweet marjoram)
* sweet Mary
* sweetmeat
* (
sweet melon)
* sweetness
* sweet nothings
* sweet oil
* sweet on
* sweet orange
* sweet pea
* sweet pepper
* sweet pickle
* sweet potato
* (
sweet rocket)
* sweet roll
* sweetroot
* sweets
* sweet scabious
* sweet science
* (
sweet shrub)
* sweet sixteen
* Sweet Sixteen
* sweet-smelling
* sweet-sop
* (
sweet sorghum)
* sweet spot
* (
sweet sultan)
* sweet-talk
* sweet talker
* sweet tooth
* (
sweet unicorn plant)
* sweet vermouth
* (
sweet vetch)
* (
sweet violet)
* sweet water
* (
sweet wattle)
* sweet william/Sweet William
* sweet woodruff
* sweety
* sweet young thing
* unsweet
* (
winter sweet)
Usage notes
* Also used as a positive response to good news or information: They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet !
Adverb
(
en adverb)
In a sweet manner.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (in a sweet manner) sweetly
Noun
(uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
(countable, British) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
(countable, British) A food eaten for dessert.
- Can we see the sweet menu, please?
sweetheart; darling
* Ben Jonson
- Wherefore frowns my sweet ?
(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
* Milton
- a wilderness of sweets
(obsolete) That which is pleasing or welcome to the mind.
- the sweets of domestic life
Synonyms
* (sweet taste sensation) See sweetness
* (food that is high in sugar content) bonbon, candy (US), confection, confectionery, lolly (Australia)
* (food eaten for dessert) See dessert
Derived terms
* sweet shop
* sweetshop
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