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honeyed

honeyed

2 3.7
Flavored with honey, like bread or tea
  • adjective
  • /ˈhʌniˌd/
translation icon : mielado
  • The dessert was topped with a honeyed glaze that added a rich sweetness.
  • honeyed flavor
  • honeyed peach
  • honeyed apple

Examples

  • She enjoyed a bowl of honeyed yogurt mixed with fresh fruit for breakfast.

  • I grow and sell Lengunweed and things I steal from the Romans, including that quite delicious honeyed wine.

    The Book of Clarence (2024)

  • Honeyed layer on top of honeyed layer.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I'm going to take this one by cover girl and it is called honeyed bloom.

  • Julie's body was grown, but she had the warm, soft, honeyed skin of a little girl of nine or ten.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • In fact, the thick, wild mane of honeyed brown hair was the first thing Joel really noticed about her.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The mist around her swirled, turning golden with a honeyed glow.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The gym has a honeyed look from the late afternoon light on the freshly refinished floors.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Then why were you staring at me, your eyes as bright as a child's staring at honeyed apple slices?

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Her hair grew subtly longer, fuller, and lightened into the honeyed curls of her youth.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

honied
vshoneyed
7.1

A food or drink made with honey that tastes sweet

is broader, allowing only a flavoring rather than an added ingredient
mellitus
vshoneyed
9.9

Tasting sweet like honey

focuses on actual containing or being flavored with the sweet substance
honeylike
vshoneyed
4.0

A thing that has the colour, feel, or taste of honey

applies to items that actually contain or are flavored by the sweet substance

Antonyms

bitter
81 1.0

Having a sharp, unpleasant taste that is not sweet

sour
4 1.0

A food or drink that has a sharp taste

Compounds

honeyed words
  • Informal
1 7.2

Smooth, pleasant speech that tries to trick people

How Sweet

cloying
3 8.2
honeyed
2 3.7
sweet
611 1.0
unsweetened
7 3.0

Surface Forms

honeyed positive

Morphology

honeyed = honey (transparent) = honey + ed

Direct adjectival formation from 'honey' meaning 'containing or flavored with honey', a literal and readily inferable meaning.

Etymology

The word honeyed comes from honey ('sweet sticky food made by bees') and the ending -ed, which means 'having' or 'made with'. So honeyed means 'made with honey' and is used for food or drink that tastes of honey.