Sweet vs Beauty - What's the difference?
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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.
The property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (Aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1988', "… '''beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -''Second Son , Robert Ferro
Someone who is beautiful.
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
An excellent or egregious example of something.
(with the definite article) The excellence, e.g. the genius
(particle, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
* Jeremy Taylor
(Canada) Of high quality, well done.
As a proper noun sweet
is .As a noun beauty is
the property, quality or state of being "that which pleases merely by being perceived" (aquinas); that which is attractive, pleasing, fine or good looking; comeliness.As an interjection beauty is
(canada) thanks! cool!.As an adverb beauty is
(canada) of high quality, well done.sweet
English
(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
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 dessertDerived terms
* sweet shop * sweetshopStatistics
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* * 1000 English basic wordsbeauty
English
(wikipedia beauty)Noun
- Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
- Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty .
- That phrasing is a beauty .
- What a goal, what a beauty .
- ''The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!
- She stained her hair yellow, which was then the beauty .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "beauty": natural, great, real, physical, exotic, inner, spiritual, strange, divine, visual, heavenly, intellectual, facial, attractive, sensuous, sensual, seductive, musical, austere, alluring, mathematical, geometric, astounding, bodily, pictorial.Synonyms
* gorgeousness, inspiration, loveliness * (someone who is beautiful) belle, looker * (something pleasing) gem, jewel * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* repulsiveness, homeliness, uglinessDerived terms
* age before beauty * bathing beauty * beaut * beauteous * beautician * beautifiable * beautification * beautifier * beautiful * beautifully * beautifulness * beautify * beautiless * beauty consultant * beauty contest * beauty is in the eye of the beholder * beauty is only skin deep * beauty mark * beauty pageant * beauty parlor * beauty quark * beauty salon * beauty school * beauty shop * beauty sleep * beauty spot * beauty strip * beautyberry * beautybush * beautydom * beautyhood * beautyship * California beauty * Camberwell beauty * line of beauty * meadow beauty * painted beauty * raw beauty * Rome beauty * Rutland beauty * Sleeping Beauty * spring beautySee also
* usefulnessAdverb
(en adverb)- He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.