Unscramble sweet

Definition of sweet

adjective:

• having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar. Antonyms: sour.
• having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile", "a cherubic face", "looking so seraphic when he slept", "a sweet disposition". Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic.
• pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello". Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant.
• pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark", "the sweet face of a child".
• pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge". Synonyms: gratifying.
• having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices", "the odorous air of the orchard", "the perfumed air of June", "scented flowers". Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling.
• (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines". Antonyms: dry.
• not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water". Synonyms: fresh. Antonyms: salty.
• not soured or preserved; "sweet milk". Synonyms: fresh, unfermented.
• with sweetening added. Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened.

adverb:

• in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); ; - Shakespeare; "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly", "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank", "talking sweet to each other". Synonyms: sweetly.

noun:

• English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912). Synonyms: Henry Sweet, Sweet.
• a dish served as the last course of a meal. Synonyms: afters, dessert.
• a food rich in sugar. Synonyms: confection.
• the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth. Synonyms: sugariness, sweetness.
• the property of tasting as if it contains sugar. Synonyms: sweetness.

Related words

ambrosia, blancmange, candy, center, centre, charlotte, comfit, compote, confect, confectionery, confiture, dumpling, flan, gum, hardbake, junket, maraschino, mold, mould, mousse, nonpareil, pavlova, pud, pudding, sabayon, saccharinity, sillabub, sugariness, sweetmeat, syllabub, tiramisu, whip, zabaglione.

Words nearby

sheet, skeet, sleet, sweat, sweep, swept, tweet.

Rhymes with

backseat, beat, beet, cheat, cleat, compete, complete, conceit, concrete, crete, deceit, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, downbeat, eat, effete.