sweet




sweet - noun

  • English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
  • a dish served as the last course of a meal
  • a food rich in sugar
  • the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
  • the property of tasting as if it contains sugar

  • sweet - adjective

    • having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
    • (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
    • not containing or composed of salt water
    • having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
    • pleasing to the ear
    • pleasing to the senses
    • pleasing to the mind or feeling
    • having a natural fragrance
    • not soured or preserved
    • with sweetening added

    sweet - adverb

    • in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')

    sweet - thesaurus

    afters   angelic   angelical   cherubic   confection   dessert   dulcet   fresh   gratifying   honeyed   mellifluous   mellisonant   odoriferous   odorous   perfumed   scented   seraphic   sugared   sugariness   sweetened   sweetly   sweetness   unfermented  


    View spelling list ee words - set 1 and learn about the word sweet in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 7. Long vowels e.g ee, ea or y? oa, o-e, or ow? u-e, ue, or ew?.

    Other Spellzone word lists: Food, flavours

    Scrabble score for sweet

    s is 1 w is 4 e is 1 e is 1 t is 1
    Scrabble score = 8

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