sweet-flavored

2.8

Tasting like sugar or honey

adjective
/switˈfleɪvərd/

: de sabor dulce

The dessert was a sweet-flavored cake topped with fresh strawberries.

Examples

I was so nervous I was sweating, but Jeff continued to talk to me—he mentioned green tea and black tea, sweet-flavored tea and smoky-flavored tea—and the whole time I was too shy to look at his face.

Fiction book (2001)
She enjoyed a sweet-flavored latte made with vanilla syrup.
Because you realized when you ate that Peach that it left a really sweet, sweet flavour on your fingers.
The juice was deliciously sweet-flavored, perfect for a hot summer day.

Synonyms

sweet

vssweet-flavored

611 1.0

Having a taste like sugar, as in candy

is the hyphenated phrase form rather than the single word form

sugary

vssweet-flavored

31 1.0

Tasting very sweet because it has a lot of sugar

is about having a sugar taste whether because of added or natural sources

sugared

vssweet-flavored

1 1.0

With sugar added to make it sweet

is about a sugar taste that can come from added or natural sources

sweetened

vssweet-flavored

1.8

Made to taste sweet by adding sugar or honey

is about tasting of sugar whether from added sugars or natural sugars

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

How Sweet

cloying

3 8.2

sweet-flavored

2.8

Surface Forms

sweet-flavored positive

Morphology

sweet-flavored = sweet + flavored (transparent) = sweet + flavor + ed

The meaning is a straightforward combination of 'sweet' + 'flavored' meaning 'having a sweet flavor', matching productive English usage like 'fruit-flavored' or 'sugar-flavored'.

Etymology

Sweet-flavored combines sweet ('tasting like sugar') and flavored ('having a particular taste'). So sweet-flavored simply means 'having a sweet taste', often because sugar or something sweet was added.