sweetish
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈswitɪʃ/
:
dulce
- The cake had a sweetish flavor that made it enjoyable yet not overwhelmingly sweet.
- sweetish smell
- sweetish taste
- sweetish odor
Examples
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The sweetish, fruity odor of her breath filled his nostrils.
Fiction book (2001) -
I could smell his sweetish breath but didn't think the old man noticed.
Fiction book (1991) -
The air had a surprisingly clean, sweetish, mineral taste.
Fiction book (1995) -
Though we'd rolled our windows down, his rank sweetish breath filled the car.
Fiction book (1991) -
The back stairs smelled of roach killer and sweetish garbage.
Fiction book (2001) -
The men coming from the still will bring the smell of burning, of charcoal, and the thick, sweetish aroma of beech smoke in with them.
Fiction book (2000) -
His right hand trembled, and he continually wiped his eyes with a large handkerchief from which there came a faint sweetish aroma.
Fiction book (2002) -
So each room was only the sweetish smell of rot until the landlord flicked on a light, and even this didn't dissipate the gloom.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sweetish smell of something boiling—offal?—was swallowed with tea flurriedly made for the white visitor; the children brought her their school exercise books.
Fiction book (1994) -
I fished a few kernels of popcorn from the plastic bowl on the bar and chewed until only a sweetish taste lingered in my mouth and a thin film of oil coated my palm.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a taste like sugar, as in candy
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1.0
Tasting very sweet because it has a lot of sugar
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2.3
Having a pleasant scent
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3.0
Having a pleasant sweet smell
A taste that is a little sweet and a little bitter, like some chocolate
Tasting like sugar or honey
Antonyms
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweetish is made from sweet and the ending -ish, which means 'somewhat' or 'like', as in greenish. So sweetish means 'a little sweet' or 'not very sweet'.