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sweet

sweet

5 1.0
The taste of sugar in food or drink
  • noun
  • /swiːt/
: dulzor
  • The sweet of the ripe mango made it hard to resist.

Examples

  • After a long day, I enjoy the sweet of a chocolate brownie.

  • And that sweet taste is part of the motivator.

  • This pie is nowhere near as sweet as an apple pie.

  • Check out the fridge, it's full of sweets.

  • It may be a sweet taste craving.

  • 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

sweetness
vssweet
33 1.0

A pleasant sugary taste like ripe fruit or honey

is the immediate taste sensation rather than the abstract quality
sugariness
vssweet
1 3.9

How sweet something tastes

is the broader sensory feeling not limited to sugar likeness

Antonyms

55 1.0

Having a sharp, unpleasant taste that is not sweet

7 1.0

A food or drink that has a sharp taste

Idioms

sweet dreams
  • Informal
46 1.4

To tell someone you hope they have nice dreams before they sleep

Sweet Jesus
  • Informal
28 9.9

A short spoken phrase showing strong surprise or shock

home sweet home
  • Informal
23 2.3

A warm, happy feeling when you are at your own home

short and sweet
  • Informal
13 4.0

Quick and pleasant without extra detail, often about a talk or message

A strong cry showing surprise or shock

sweet fuck all
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A very rude way to say you have nothing at all

5.4

Very pleasant and musical to hear like a singing bird

To do small kind things that make a team feel happy and work well together

9.9

Nothing at all is left

Do something slowly on purpose and without hurry

Compounds

70 1.0

A large root vegetable with sweet, starchy flesh you cook or bake

sweet spot
  • Informal
27 4.4

The best point where something works well

sweet talk
  • Informal
26 4.3

Flattering words that try to persuade someone but are not sincere

sweet pea
  • Baby Talk
25 3.0

A loving name adults use for a child or pet

sweet tooth
  • Informal
23 2.8

A strong liking for sweet foods like candy and cake

Having a pleasant scent

9 3.9

Having a pleasant, gentle face that looks kind

9 1.1

A type of corn with sweet, tender kernels that people eat as a vegetable when young

5 3.5

A short time of warm feelings you remember

sweet nothings
  • Informal
5 6.6

Soft loving words whispered to someone to show love

Having a pleasant sweet smell

sweet talker
  • Informal
4 5.6

A person who uses kind words to charm or trick people

4 1.1

A small sweet bread made with yeast, often with cinnamon, nuts, or glaze

3 3.0

A climbing garden plant with small fragrant flowers in pale colors

sweet young thing
  • Offensive
3 8.2

An attractive young woman often talked about in a kind way or as less grown-up

3 1.5

A large mild fruit often eaten as a vegetable with thick walls and a bell shape

Kind and gentle toward others

Dark, sweet wine made stronger with alcohol and flavored with herbs for cocktails

1 6.9

A grass with a sweet smell that grows near water

A type of chocolate that is not very sweet and is good for baking

1 2.7

A vegetable kept in sugar and vinegar that tastes sweet and sour

1 1.0

A round fruit with sweet juice and orange skin

1 3.5

A mild vegetable oil like olive oil that you use for cooking and skin care

1 2.6

A round fruit with sweet, juicy flesh eaten fresh

A garden flower with dense clusters of small flat-topped flowers and a pleasant smell

1 4.4

A small tree that makes edible nuts with a hard shell and pink flowers

Tasting like sugar or honey

1 7.7

A sticky fragrant substance from a tree used in medicine and perfume

A tall plant grown for its sweet juice used to make syrup

1 7.2

A slow time someone takes on purpose that annoys other people

1 4.1

A gentle type of jazz with a steady beat, medium speed, little improvisation, and a warm clear melody

1 6.1

A North American tree with star-shaped leaves and prickly round fruits

sweet hereafter
  • Literature
1 9.1

A peaceful and pleasant life after death that gives comfort

1 2.0

A green herb with a strong smell used to flavor food like tomatoes

1 6.0

A North American tree with spiky round seed balls and sweet-smelling sap and red leaves in autumn

1 8.6

A low shrubby plant with fern-like leaves that smell sweet, from North America

1 3.4

A fruit like a lemon but sweeter and less sour

1 8.9

A tall garden plant with strong sweet-smelling purple or white flowers that smell at night

A pale yellow oil from almonds that people use for cooking and for skin or hair

1 7.9

A small egg-shaped clay wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes

A trailing plant grown for its large sweet roots eaten as food

1 2.3

Apple juice made from pressed apples that has no alcohol

A low plant with small white flowers and a sweet smell used to cover the ground and flavor drinks

1 4.7

A plant grown for hay that makes soil richer for other plants

A low garden plant with many small, sweet-smelling white flowers

A fragrant herb with small leaves used to flavor food

1 2.0

A tree that grows sweet red fruit you can eat or the fruit it makes

1 3.4

A lemon tree and its fruit that have a mild, sweet taste and can be eaten fresh

1 7.5

A small tree or bush from the southeastern United States with fragrant white flowers

A plant with scented leaves used to make medicine

1 9.8

A marsh plant with long pointed leaves and roots that have a strong smell

1 5.7

A bushy herb in the mint family with lemon-scented leaves, also called lemon balm

1 5.8

A small plant with purple or white flowers that smell sweet

1 3.8

A large tree that loses its leaves and makes nuts you can eat and good wood

1 9.6

A bush with spikes of sweet-smelling white flowers that grows near streams and coasts and attracts bees

1 9.9

A European garden herb with fern-like leaves, white flowers and a sweet aniseed taste

sweet-breathed
  • Literature
1 7.2

Having a pleasant smell coming from the mouth

sweet cassava
  • Australian
1 5.7

A cassava with roots that need less cooking and leaves used to feed animals

1 8.4

A bush with fragrant white flowers that bloom in summer

1 9.9

A bush that loses its leaves and has long clusters of pink flowers

sweet-potato whitefly
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A small insect that attacks sweet potatoes and other crops and spreads plant viruses

A tree that grows sweet oranges used for eating and making juice

1 7.3

A hardy shrub with clove-scented wood and fragrant reddish-brown flowers

sweet-scented geranium
  • South African
1 7.9

A plant with divided leaves and pink flowers that smell sweet

1 8.1

A small shrub with sweet-smelling flowers that bloom in winter

1 9.9

A yellow tropical fruit with juicy sweet flesh

A marsh plant with long leaves and sweet-smelling roots used for flavoring and medicine

1 6.7

A North American tree with dark bark that smells like mint and has hard wood used for furniture

A plant with yellow flowers that improves soil and attracts bees

A North American tree with star-shaped leaves, spiky round fruit, and sticky fragrant sap

1 9.9

A small bush that grows in wet places and has bitter leaves with a strong smell

1 9.6

A North American bush that people use to make jam and wine from its purple-black berries

1 9.9

A person who is innocent and trusts people easily

How Sweet

sweetness
33 1.0
sweet
5 1.0
blandness
1 4.1

Surface Forms

sweet singular
sweets plural

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.