sweet
- adjective
- /swiːt/
- "Chester produces large harvests of big, sweet, deep-colored, flavorful berries that ship well," he says.
- sweet potato
- sweet and sour
- sweet and juicy
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Watch on YouTubeSo it's more of a sweet, soft, mild, not sharp.
- So it's more of a sweet, soft, mild, not sharp.
- You'd have either unsweet, super sweet or Raspberry sweet.
- It's really good, sweet and sweet chili.
- Oh, it's quite sweet, Quite, quite sweet.
- And so people were making breads and sweet breads using yeast.
- But you guys, this smells like the vanilla sweet cream foam from Starbucks.
- Like, if they're being like, give me more of that sweet, sweet nectar.
- Like a juicy and sweet a Peach.
- You'll never know the the sweet taste of peanut butter on nipples.
Examples
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The cake was so sweet that I could taste the sugar in every bite.
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A cool evening June breeze fills the room with a sweet fragrance of cherry blossoms from the garden.
Fiction book (1990) -
Oh, it's quite sweet, Quite, quite sweet.
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I mean, is that sweet or what?
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This is a sweet flavor with some soul.
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I could go for a little of that sweet and sour pork right now.
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Foods that are especially sweet and high in fats.
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It smells like a sweet white wine.
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Crisp, attractively colored, and harvested only when perfectly sweet, Flame is second only to Thompson Seedless in popularity.
Academic text (1994) -
She enjoyed a sweet glass of iced tea on the hot summer day.
Synonyms
Tasting very sweet because it has a lot of sugar
A taste that is a little sweet and a little bitter, like some chocolate
Tasting like sugar or honey
A little sweet in taste or smell
Very sweet and nice to taste and smell
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 garden flower with dense clusters of small flat-topped flowers and a pleasant smell
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 pale yellow oil from almonds that people use for cooking and for skin or hair
A low plant with small white flowers and a sweet smell used to cover the ground and flavor drinks
- US
A small tree or bush from the southeastern United States with fragrant white flowers
A bush with spikes of sweet-smelling white flowers that grows near streams and coasts and attracts bees
- UK
A European garden herb with fern-like leaves, white flowers and a sweet aniseed taste
- Australian
A cassava with roots that need less cooking and leaves used to feed animals
- Specialized
A small insect that attacks sweet potatoes and other crops and spreads plant viruses
- South African
A plant with divided leaves and pink flowers that smell sweet
A marsh plant with long leaves and sweet-smelling roots used for flavoring and medicine
- US
A North American tree with dark bark that smells like mint and has hard wood used for furniture
A North American tree with star-shaped leaves, spiky round fruit, and sticky fragrant sap
- US
A North American bush that people use to make jam and wine from its purple-black berries
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sweet comes from Old English swete meaning 'pleasant' or 'sugary', and the idea is the same as in sweeten. So when we call a wine or food sweet, we mean it tastes of sugar and is pleasing to the mouth.