sweet

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
• Having a taste of sugar.
• Retaining a portion of sugar.
• Not having a salty taste.
• Having a pleasant smell.
• Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
• Having a pleasant sound.
• Having a pleasing disposition.
• Having a helpful disposition.
• Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
• Very pleasing; agreeable.
• Doing well; in a good or happy position.
• Romantically fixated, enamoured with, fond of
• Fresh; not salt or brackish.
• Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.

Interjection

• Used as a positive response to good news or information.

Adverb

• In a sweet manner.

Noun

• The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
• A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
• A food eaten for dessert.
• Sweetheart; darling.
• That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
• Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.

Verb

• To sweeten.

Related

Similar words

• saccharine, sugary
• sugared, sweetened
• fresh, unsalty
• fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling
• fresh, unfermented, wholesome
• dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant
• cute, lovable, pleasant
• kind, gracious, helpful, sensitive, thoughtful
• rad, awesome, wicked
• sweetly
• See sweetness
• bonbon, candy , confection, confectionery, lolly
• See dessert

Opposite words

• bitter, sour, salty
• nonsweet, sugarless, unsugared, unsweetened, unsweet
• dry
• decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, stale
• salty, savoury
• sour
• lame, uncool

Origin

• From Middle English sweete, swete, from Old English swēte ("sweet"), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz ("sweet"), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus ("sweet").
• Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit, North Frisian sweete, Saterland Frisian swäit, West Frisian swiet, Dutch zoet, German Low German sööt, German süß, Danish sød, Swedish söt, Norwegian søt, Icelandic sætur, Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु, Ancient Greek ἡδύς. suave.