sweet
See also: Sweet
sweet - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /swiːt/
- (General American) IPA: /swit/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /swiːt/
- Homophone: suite
Adjective
sweet (comparative sweeter, superlative sweetest)
- Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- a sweet apple
- Having a taste of sugar.
- (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
- Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
- Not having a salty taste.
- sweet butter
- Having a pleasant smell.
- a sweet scent
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- sweet milk
- Having a pleasant sound.
- a sweet tune
- Having a pleasing disposition.
- a sweet child
- You're so sweet!
- Having a helpful disposition.
- It was sweet of him to help out.
- (mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- sweet gas
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
- (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
- The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
- (slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
- (informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
- The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.
- Fresh; not salt or brackish.
- sweet water
- (of soil, UK, dated) Alkaline.
- Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
- a sweet face
- a sweet colour or complexion
- An intensifier.
Translations
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
- (not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale): 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
- ((informal) very pleasing): rad, awesome, wicked
Antonyms
- (having a pleasant taste): bitter, sour, salty
- (containing a sweetening ingredient): nonsweet, sugarless, unsugared, unsweetened, unsweet
- (of wines: retaining a portion of natural sugar): dry
- (not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale): decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, stale
- (not having a salty taste): salty, savoury
- (free from excessive unwanted substances): sour
- (alkaline): sour
- ((informal) very pleasing): lame, uncool
Derived terms
- bittersweet
- boiled sweet
- flower-sweet
- home sweet home
- honey-sweet
- meadowsweet
- semisweet
- short and sweet
- sickeningly sweet
- sickly sweet/sickly-sweet
- sugar-sweet
- sweet-breasted
- sweet-smelling
- sweet-sop
- sweet-talk
- 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
- sweetbread
- sweet bread
- sweetbriar
- sweet butter
- 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
- sweet four o'clock
- sweet gale
- sweet goldenrod
- sweetgrass
- sweet grass
- Sweet Grass County
- sweet gum tree
- sweet hereafter
- Sweet Home
- 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 sorghum
- sweet spot
- sweet sultan
- sweet talker
- sweet tea
- 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
Interjection
sweet
- Used as a positive response to good news or information.
- They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!
Adverb
sweet (comparative more sweet, superlative most sweet)
- In a sweet manner.
Synonyms
- (in a sweet manner): sweetly
Translations
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Noun
sweet (countable and uncountable, plural sweets)
- (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- (countable, Britain) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
- (countable, Britain) A food eaten for dessert.
- Can we see the sweet menu, please?
- Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.
- Good evening, my sweet.
- (obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
- (obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
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 dessert
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
sweet (third-person singular simple present sweets, present participle sweeting, simple past and past participle sweeted)
Anagrams
sweet - Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA: /svɪə̯t/
Noun
sweet (uncountable)
- sweat
- Daar was baie sweet op haar voorhoof.
- There was a lot of sweat on her forehead.
Verb
sweet (present sweet, present participle swetende, past participle gesweet)
- to sweat
sweet - Chinese
Alternative forms
- 時weet/时weet (si4 wit1), 是weet (si6 wit1), 士weet (si6 wit1)
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): si4 wit1, si6 wit1
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: si4 wit1, si6 wit1
- Yale: sìh wīt, sih wīt
- Cantonese Pinyin: si4 wit7, si6 wit7
- Guangdong Romanization: xi4 wid1, xi6 wid1
- Sinological IPA : /siː²¹ wiːt̚⁵/, /siː²² wiːt̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Adjective
sweet
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) romantic
Derived terms
- sweet sweet
sweet - Middle Dutch
Noun
swêet n
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- sweit
Derived terms
Descendants
sweet - Yola
Adjective
sweet