sweet

Meaning

1. Tasting of sugars.
2. Retaining a portion of sugar.
3. Not of a salty taste.
4. Of a pleasant smell.
5. Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
6. Of a pleasant sound.
7. Of a pleasing disposition.
8. Of a helpful disposition.
9. Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
10. (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
11. (slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
12. (informal) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
13. Fresh; not salt or brackish.
14. Alkaline.
15. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
16. An intensifier.

candy

sweet-sounding

sweet-tasting

sweet-flavored

very sweet

sweet-scented

mellisonant

agreable

be sweet

bon-bon

candy bar

full-flavoured

good taste

hard candy

honied

squidgy

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

unsoured

myronic

exquisity

over sentimental

flattering hypocritical manner

douce

mother’s milk

pleasant taste

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swiːt/

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.