sweet

adjective

1. 1.

   Tasting of sugars.

2. 2.

   Not of a salty taste.

3. 3.

   Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.

4. 4.

   Of a pleasant smell.

5. 5.

   Of a pleasing disposition.

6. 6.

   Of a helpful disposition.

noun

1. 1.

   The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth

2. 2.

   uncountable

   The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.

3. 3.

   The property of tasting as if it contains sugar

4. 4.

   A food rich in sugar

adverb

1. 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.”

2. 2.

   In a pleasant manner.

Word family

Words built from the same root.

• sweetnessnounDerived noun · specialist

  The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

• sweet buckeyenounCompound term

  A tall and often cultivated buckeye of the central United States.

• sweet calabashnounCompound term

  West Indian passionflower with edible apple-sized fruit.

• sweet calamusnounCompound term

  Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.

• sweet cassavanounCompound term

  South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed.

• sweet cherrynounCompound term

  Large Eurasian tree producing small dark bitter fruit in the wild but edible sweet fruit under cultivation.

• sweet chestnutnounCompound term

  Wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.