Adored vs Sweet - What's the difference?
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(adore)
To worship.
*(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
*:Bishops and priests,bearing the host, which he [James] publicly adored .
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
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* (1800-1859)
*:The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.
To be very fond of.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
(lb) To adorn.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Like to the hore / Congealed drops, which do the morn adore .
Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
Having a taste of sugar.
Containing a sweetening ingredient.
(wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
Not having a salty taste.
* 1821 , Robert Thomas, The modern practice of physic
Having a pleasant smell.
* Longfellow
Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
Having a pleasant sound.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Having a pleasing disposition.
Having a helpful disposition.
(mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
(informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
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(informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
(obsolete) Fresh; not salt or brackish.
Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
* Milton
(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.
sweetheart; darling
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which is pleasing or welcome to the mind.
Adored is a related term of sweet.
As a verb adored
is (adore).As a proper noun sweet is
.adored
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(head)Anagrams
*adore
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(ador)Derived terms
* adorant * adorative * adorer * adoringlyAnagrams
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(wikipedia sweet)Adjective
(er)- a sweet apple
- Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
- sweet butter
- 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.
- a sweet scent
- The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
- sweet milk
- a sweet tune
- a voice sweet , tremulous, but powerful
- a sweet child
- It was sweet of him to help out.
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
- The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
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- The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.
- sweet water
- (Francis Bacon)
- a sweet''' face; a '''sweet colour or complexion
- 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, wickedAntonyms
* (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, uncoolDerived 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 !Synonyms
* (in a sweet manner) sweetlyNoun
- Can we see the sweet menu, please?
- Wherefore frowns my sweet ?
- a wilderness of sweets
- the sweets of domestic life