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Sweet

adjective

(compar. sweeter; superl. sweetest)

1.

Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar.

2.

Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub. Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic. "A cherubic face" , "Looking so seraphic when he slept" , "A sweet disposition"

3.

Pleasing to the ear. Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant.

4.

Pleasing to the senses. "The sweet face of a child"

5.

Pleasing to the mind or feeling. Synonym: gratifying.

6.

Having a natural fragrance. Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling. "The odorous air of the orchard" , "The perfumed air of June" , "Scented flowers"

7.

(used of wines) having a high residual sugar content.

8.

Not containing or composed of salt water. Synonym: fresh.

9.

Not soured or preserved. Synonyms: fresh, unfermented.

10.

With sweetening added. Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened.

noun

1.

English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912). Synonym: Henry Sweet.

2.

A dish served as the last course of a meal. Synonyms: afters, dessert.

3.

A food rich in sugar. Synonym: confection.

4.

The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth. Synonyms: sugariness, sweetness.

5.

The property of tasting as if it contains sugar. Synonym: sweetness.

adverb

1.

In an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly'). Synonym: sweetly. "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank" , "Talking sweet to each other"

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"Sweet" Quotes from Famous Books

... we gazed at them from below. We tried to fire at them with the Mauser, but again not a single cartridge went off. Eventually the monkeys dropped down the empty shells of the fruit they had eaten. With our ravenous appetite we rushed for them and with our teeth scraped off the few grains of sweet substance which remained attached to the inside of the shells. We waited and waited under that tree for a long time, Filippe now joining also in the prayers. Each time a shell dropped our palates rejoiced for a few moments at the infinitesimal taste we got from ...

— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... vagabond, Beecher, blessed the weapons, and encouraged the party to go forth and "do or die" in the sublime "cause of nigger freedom!" In all human probability, sweet Mary Dutton's rifle may have sped the ball that pierced the side of Sheriff Jones, the officer of the law, while in the honest discharge of a sworn duty! Subsequent murders, where pro-slavery men were shot down with these rifles, we ...

— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow

... Petya, blushing. "Heavens! I was quite forgetting!" he suddenly cried. "I have some raisins, fine ones; you know, seedless ones. We have a new sutler and he has such capital things. I bought ten pounds. I am used to something sweet. Would you like some?..." and Petya ran out into the passage to his Cossack and brought back some bags which contained about five pounds of raisins. "Have ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... Summer's in the land! Hark! Her call soars high and sweet. Hedge-rows flow'r at her command; Roses spring beneath her feet. Skies grow azure; life beats strong; Nature listens to adore; Thrilling at the siren's song, Yields her wond'rous treasured store. Precious fabrics of her loom Clothe her darling of the year; Wealth of sunshine; breath ...

— Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer • Jessie Graham Flower

... shocking in its appearance now. All the traces of murder had been washed away, and they had arranged the silky chestnut hair till it concealed the wound, and fell in smooth waves over the white forehead. That sweet calm which will sometimes descend on the face of the dead, even when their end has been violent—the sad Alpen-gluth that comes only when the sun has set—was there in all its beauty. Save that the features were somewhat sharper than in life, there was nothing to mar their pure classical ...

— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence

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