sweet
- noun
- /swiːt/
- The sweet of the ripe mango made it hard to resist.
Examples
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After a long day, I enjoy the sweet of a chocolate brownie.
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And that sweet taste is part of the motivator.
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This pie is nowhere near as sweet as an apple pie.
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Check out the fridge, it's full of sweets.
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It may be a sweet taste craving.
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Thai sweets are just too, well, sweet; it's a complaint rarely uttered by a child.
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This dessert has a lovely sweet that balances the tartness of the berries.
Synonyms
A pleasant sugary taste like ripe fruit or honey
How sweet something tastes
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Quick and pleasant without extra detail, often about a talk or message
To do small kind things that make a team feel happy and work well together
Compounds
A type of corn with sweet, tender kernels that people eat as a vegetable when young
- Offensive
An attractive young woman often talked about in a kind way or as less grown-up
Dark, sweet wine made stronger with alcohol and flavored with herbs for cocktails
A gentle type of jazz with a steady beat, medium speed, little improvisation, and a warm clear melody
A North American tree with spiky round seed balls and sweet-smelling sap and red leaves in autumn
- UK
A tall garden plant with strong sweet-smelling purple or white flowers that smell at night
A garden flower with dense clusters of small flat-topped flowers and a pleasant smell
- US
A small tree or bush from the southeastern United States with fragrant white flowers
A large tree from eastern North America that makes sweet edible nuts and useful wood
A North American tree with star-shaped leaves, spiky round fruit, and sticky fragrant sap
- Australian
A cassava with roots that need less cooking and leaves used to feed animals
A European plant with a vanilla smell and white to pink flowers that grows in wet places
An American plant with a sweet smell, broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers
A sweet alcoholic drink made with cherries, often used in cocktails or desserts
- UK
A European garden herb with fern-like leaves, white flowers and a sweet aniseed taste
A leafy wildflower with sweet-smelling white or pale pink trumpet flowers that blooms late afternoon
- US
A North American bush that people use to make jam and wine from its purple-black berries
A plant like chamomile that grows for one year, tastes more bitter, and helps mild stomach problems
A bush with spikes of sweet-smelling white flowers that grows near streams and coasts and attracts bees
A plant that has sweet-smelling flowers and grows in sandy places like deserts
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sweet comes from Old English swete meaning 'pleasant' or 'sugary', a meaning that grew into the name for the taste itself. That's why the word now means the sensation of sugar or something sugary.