sweet
Significat (English)
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- Tasting of sugars.
- Retaining a portion of sugar.
- Not of a salty taste.
- Of a pleasant smell.
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- Of a pleasant sound.
- Of a pleasing disposition.
- Of a helpful disposition.
- Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
- (slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
- (informal) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
- Fresh; not salt or brackish.
- Alkaline.
- Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
- An intensifier.
Synonyms
sweet-sounding
sweet-tasting
sweet-flavored
very sweet
sweet-scented
mellisonant
agreable
be sweet
full-flavoured
good taste
taste sweet
thoughful
sugary taste
be tasted
pleasant to the taste
slightly sweet
not saline
not salty
fast-breaking
honey-like
said of water
Scotch kiss
sweet-faced
exquisity
over sentimental
flattering hypocritical manner
douce
mother’s milk
pleasant taste
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/swiːt/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English 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 (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German Low German sööt (“sweet”), German süß (“sweet”), Danish sød (“sweet”), Swedish söt (“sweet”), Norwegian søt (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet”), Latin suāvis, Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús). Doublet of suave.
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