sweet
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(r) in an affectionate or loving manner ("sweet" is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of "sweetly")
- Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly
- how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank - Shakespeare
- talking sweet to each other
- (a) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
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(s) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
- an angelic smile
- a cherubic face
- looking so seraphic when he slept
- a sweet disposition
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(s) pleasing to the ear
- the dulcet tones of the cello
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(s) pleasing to the senses
- the sweet song of the lark
- the sweet face of a child
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(s) pleasing to the mind or feeling
- sweet revenge
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(s) having a natural fragrance
- odoriferous spices
- the odorous air of the orchard
- the perfumed air of June
- scented flowers
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(a) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
- sweet dessert wines
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(a) not containing or composed of salt water
- fresh water
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(s) not soured or preserved
- sweet milk
- (s) with sweetening added sugared, sweetened, sweet-flavored,
Nouns
- (n) English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912) Henry Sweet,
- (n) a dish served as the last course of a meal afters, dessert,
- (n) a food rich in sugar confection,
- (n) the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth sugariness, sweetness,
- (n) the property of tasting as if it contains sugar sweetness,
Synonyms
sweetly Henry Sweet afters dessert cherubic angelical seraphic angelic confection mellifluous mellisonant dulcet honeyed sugariness sweetness gratifying sweet-scented sweet-smelling perfumed odoriferous odorous scented fresh unfermented sugared sweetened sweet-flavoredAntonyms
sour dry saltySee also
sugary tastyWords of close approximity
sweet acacia
sweet alison
sweet almond
sweet almond oil
sweet alyssum
sweet balm
sweet basil
sweet bay
sweet bells
sweet birch
sweet-birch oil
sweetbread
sweetbreads
sweet-breathed
sweetbriar
sweetbrier
sweet buckeye
sweet calabash
sweet calamus
sweet cassava
sweet cherry
sweet chestnut
sweet cicely
sweet cider
sweet clover
sweet coltsfoot
sweet corn
sweet corn plant
sweet cup
sweet elder
sweeten
sweetened
sweetener
sweetening
sweet-faced
sweet false chamomile
sweet Fanny Adams
sweet fern
sweet flag
sweet-flavored
sweet four o'clock
sweet gale
sweet goldenrod
sweet granadilla
sweet grass
sweet gum
sweet gum tree
sweetheart
sweetie
sweetish
sweetleaf
sweetleaf family
sweet lemon
sweet lime
sweetly
sweet marjoram
sweetmeat
sweet melon
sweet melon vine
sweetness
sweetness and light
sweet nothings
sweet oil
sweet orange
sweet orange tree
sweetpea
sweet pea
sweet pepper
sweet pepperbush
sweet pepper plant
sweet pickle
sweet potato
sweet-potato ring rot
sweet potato vine
sweet-potato whitefly
sweet reseda
sweet rocket
sweet roll
sweet sand verbena
sweet scabious
sweet-scented
sweet-scented geranium
sweet shrub
sweet-smelling
sweetsop
sweetsop tree
sweet sorghum
sweet sultan
sweet talk
sweet-talk
sweet talker
sweet tooth
sweet unicorn plant
sweet vermouth
sweet vetch
sweet violet
sweet wattle
sweet white violet
sweet William
sweetwood bark