'Sweet' definitions:

Definition of 'sweet'

(from WordNet)
adverb
In an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" [syn: sweetly, sweet]
adjective
Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar [ant: sour]
adjective
Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet]
adjective
Pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet]
adjective
Pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
adjective
Pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge" [syn: gratifying, sweet]
adjective
Having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]
adjective
(used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines" [ant: dry]
adjective
Not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" [syn: fresh, sweet] [ant: salty]
adjective
Not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn: fresh, sweet, unfermented]
adjective
With sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored]
noun
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912) [syn: Sweet, Henry Sweet]
noun
A dish served as the last course of a meal [syn: dessert, sweet, afters]
noun
A food rich in sugar [syn: sweet, confection]
noun
The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet, sweetness, sugariness]
noun
The property of tasting as if it contains sugar [syn: sweetness, sweet]

Definition of 'Sweet'

From: GCIDE
  • Sweet \Sweet\, v. t. To sweeten. [Obs.] --Udall. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sweet'

From: GCIDE
  • Sweet \Sweet\, n.
  • 1. That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural. Specifically: (a) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc. (b) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. "A wilderness of sweets." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. [1913 Webster]
  • A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish of the sweet. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment. "Wherefore frowns my sweet?" --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sweet'

From: GCIDE
  • Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. Sweeter; superl. Sweetest.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te, OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. saetr, soetr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to sweeten. [root]175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion.]
  • 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. [1913 Webster]
  • The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. [1913 Webster]
  • To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. [1913 Webster]
  • Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. [1913 Webster]
  • Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. [1913 Webster]
  • Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See Alyssum.
  • Sweet apple. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See Sweet-sop.
  • Sweet bay. (Bot.) (a) The laurel (Laurus nobilis). (b) Swamp sassafras.
  • Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora (Passiflora maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
  • Sweet cicely. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray. (b) A plant of the genus Myrrhis (Myrrhis odorata) growing in England.
  • Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet flag}, below.
  • Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
  • Sweet clover. (Bot.) See Melilot.
  • Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata}) found in Western North America.
  • Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn.
  • Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia asplenifolia} syn. Myrica asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
  • Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (Acorus Calamus) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See Calamus, 2.
  • Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (Myrica Gale) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and {Dutch myrtle}. See 5th Gale.
  • Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
  • Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}). See Liquidambar.
  • Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes.
  • Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
  • Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under Horse.
  • Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See Marjoram.
  • Sweet marten (Zool.), the pine marten.
  • Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum}) allied to milfoil.
  • Sweet oil, olive oil.
  • Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under Pea.
  • Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under Potato.
  • Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
  • Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous ether}, under Spirit.
  • Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({Centaurea odorata}); -- called also sultan flower.
  • Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
  • Sweet William. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink (Dianthus barbatus) of many varieties. (b) (Zool.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zool.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.]
  • Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
  • Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry.
  • To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sweet'

From: GCIDE
  • Sweet \Sweet\, adv. Sweetly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sweet'

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Words containing 'Sweet'