sweet

  • (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
    sweetly,
  • (a) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
  • (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
    cherubic, angelical, seraphic, angelic,
  • (s) pleasing to the ear
    • the dulcet tones of the cello
    mellifluous, mellisonant, dulcet, honeyed,
  • (s) pleasing to the senses
    • the sweet song of the lark
    • the sweet face of a child
  • (s) pleasing to the mind or feeling
    • sweet revenge
    gratifying,
  • (s) having a natural fragrance
    • odoriferous spices
    • the odorous air of the orchard
    • the perfumed air of June
    • scented flowers
    sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, perfumed, odoriferous, odorous, scented,
  • (a) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
    • sweet dessert wines
  • (a) not containing or composed of salt water
    • fresh water
    fresh,
  • (s) not soured or preserved
    • sweet milk
    unfermented, fresh,
  • (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-flavored

Antonyms

sour dry salty

See also

sugary tasty

Words of close approximity

sweep
swear sweat swede sweep swell swept
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