sweet
adjective
1. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
Similar word(s): sugary, sweet, cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly, sweetish, tasty
2. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
- a sweet disposition
Similar word(s): lovable, loveable, angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic
3. pleasing to the ear
Similar word(s): melodic, melodious, musical, dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant
4. pleasing to the senses
- the sweet song of the lark
- the sweet face of a child
Similar word(s): pleasing
5. pleasing to the mind or feeling
- sweet revenge
Similar word(s): pleasing, gratifying
6. having a natural fragrance
Similar word(s): fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented
7. (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
- sweet dessert wines
Similar word(s): sugary, sweet
8. not containing or composed of salt water
Similar word(s): fresh
9. not soured or preserved
- sweet milk
Similar word(s): unsoured, fresh, unfermented
10. with sweetening added
Similar word(s): sugary, sugared, sweetened
Sentences with sweet as an adjective:
- a sweet apple
- Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
- sweet butter
- a sweet scent
- a sweet tune
- a sweet child
- It was sweet of him to help out.
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
- The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
- The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.
- a sweet face; a sweet colour or complexion
adverb
1. 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
- talking sweet to each other
Similar word(s): sweetly
noun
1. a dish served as the last course of a meal
Similar word(s): afters, dessert
Definition categories: food, course
2. a food rich in sugar
Similar word(s): confection
Definition categories: food, dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
3. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
Similar word(s): sugariness, sweetness
Definition categories: thought, taste
4. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
Similar word(s): sweetness
Definition categories: attribute
Sentences with sweet as a noun:
- Can we see the sweet menu, please?
- the sweets of domestic life