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sweet in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a dish served as the last course of a meal
    dessert  sweet  afters 
  2. a food rich in sugar
    sweet  confection 
  3. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
    sweet  sweetness  sugariness 
  4. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
    sweetness  sweet 
adjective
  1. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
    "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition"
    angelic  angelical  cherubic  seraphic  sweet 
  2. pleasing to the ear
    "the dulcet tones of the cello"
    dulcet  honeyed  mellifluous  mellisonant  sweet 
  3. not containing or composed of salt water
    "fresh water"
    fresh  sweet 
  4. not soured or preserved
    "sweet milk"
    fresh  sweet  unfermented 
  5. pleasing to the mind or feeling
    "sweet revenge"
    gratifying  sweet 
  6. having a natural fragrance
    "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers"
    odoriferous  odorous  perfumed  scented  sweet  sweet-scented  sweet-smelling 
  7. with sweetening added
    sugared  sweetened  sweet  sweet-flavored 
  8. (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
    "sweet dessert wines"
    sweet 
  9. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
    sweet 
  10. pleasing to the senses
    "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
    sweet 
adverb
  1. 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"
    sweetly  sweet  sweetly  sweet 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University



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