sweet
sweet is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, adverb, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
- superlative. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
- noun. That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- noun. Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
- noun. Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
- noun. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
- noun. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
- noun. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
- adverb. Sweetly.
- transitive verb. To sweeten.
- noun. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
- noun. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
- noun. a food rich in sugar
- noun. a dish served as the last course of a meal
- noun. English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
- adjective. having a natural fragrance
"odoriferous spices"
"the odorous air of the orchard"
- adjective. not containing or composed of salt water
"fresh water"
- adjective. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
"an angelic smile"
"a cherubic face"
- adjective. pleasing to the ear
"the dulcet tones of the cello"
- adjective. pleasing to the mind or feeling
"sweet revenge"
- adjective. pleasing to the senses
"the sweet song of the lark"
"the sweet face of a child"
- adjective. with sweetening added
- adjective. (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
"sweet dessert wines"
- adjective. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
- adjective. not soured or preserved
"sweet milk"
- adverb. in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')- Shakespeare
"Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"
"how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"
Synonyms
sweetness, sugariness, confection, afters, dessert, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, fresh, angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, gratifying, sugared, sweetened, unfermented, sweetly
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sweet:
Common word forms
sweets, sweeten, sweeter, sweetly, sweetest, sweetful, sweeting, sweetless, sweetness
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