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Oversweet vs Overswept - What's the difference?

oversweet | overswept |

As an adjective oversweet

is too sweet; excessively sweet.

As a verb overswept is

past tense of oversweep.

oversweet

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Too sweet; excessively sweet.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 27, author=Anne Midgette, title=Operetta and Weill in Front; Moving Shadows in Back, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Operetta is tricky: potentially as sparkling and sophisticated as Champagne, it is often produced today as a kind of Kool-Aid punch, overbright and oversweet and with very little appeal to a discriminating audience. }}

    overswept

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (oversweep)

    • oversweep

    English

    Verb

  • To sweep over; to cover by sweeping.
    • (John Keats)