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ADJECTIVE sweet COMPARATIVE sweeter SUPERLATIVE sweetest
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sweet English

Meaning sweet meaning

What does sweet mean?
Definitions in simple English

sweet

If something is sweet, it tastes like sugar or fruit. This cake is very sweet. I think you put much sugar in it. A sweet person or thing pleases or is nice. Thank you! It's very sweet of you to give me this.

sweet

A sweet is a piece of candy.

sweet

having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar (= angelic, cherubic, seraphic) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub an angelic smile a cherubic face looking so seraphic when he slept a sweet disposition (= dulcet) pleasing to the ear the dulcet tones of the cello pleasing to the senses the sweet song of the lark the sweet face of a child pleasing to the mind or feeling sweet revenge (= odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented) having a natural fragrance odoriferous spices the odorous air of the orchard the perfumed air of June scented flowers (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content sweet dessert wines (= sweetly) 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 the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth a food rich in sugar not soured or preserved sweet milk (= dessert) a dish served as the last course of a meal (= sweetness) the property of tasting as if it contains sugar (= fresh) not containing or composed of salt water fresh water (= sweetened) with sweetening added

Sweet

English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)

Synonyms sweet synonyms

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Sweet English » English

Henry Sweet

Topics sweet topics

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Simple sentences

No sweet without sweat.
The apple tastes sweet.
Peaches taste sweet.
You are so sweet!
Do you like sweet tea?
He told her something sweet.
Chocolate tastes sweet.
Good night. Sweet dreams.
That's very sweet of you.
I want something sweet.
I can't resist sweet things.
Sweet dreams, Timmy.
The roses in the garden smell sweet.
I feel like eating something sweet.
Sweet dreams!
Life is sweet.
Chrysanthemums smell sweet.
I want something sweet to eat.

Movie subtitles

For centuries they can bask in a sweet spot of power and prosperity.
Can you open your mouth for me, my sweet?
Right, okay, but we were in the hospital, and he was really sweet, and then we got home, and he was, like, weird again.
You're sweet.
That's very sweet of you, but I'm okay.
Sweet dreams.
Josh just bought a sweet new car.
That's sweet but disturbing.
The sweet smell of freedom.
The Sweet Smell of Death.
Well, I can barely remember and I wasn't really in the mood, but. the sweet girl had made such an effort to be there and I knew it was most likely Declan's last time, so I played my part.
She's as blonde as you and as sweet as you and as funny as you, and I adore her, but she's six years old and she's my daughter.
Good - night, sweet prince, and may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
My sewing club, now unionized, B-T-W, made us some sweet Bonnie and Clyde costumes.
Very pretty and sweet. Sixteen.
Sweet vampire bite.
This one is used to grow sweet corn.
You sweet, poor one.
And my love shall come, my handsome, sweet. I want Vitelozzo ere I die. I want, I want.
When he was next to her and was looking at her, sweet weakness was penetrating all her body and burning desire was filling her.
My God you're sweet!
May you have sweet dreams.
A sweet girl, let me tell you!
They were singing Sweet Adeline.
You're going to pass up that nice, big roast turkey? With chestnut dressing. and sweet potatoes, southern style?
It's such a sweet nose.
Sweet or not, I'm not gonna live in your house.
I've never wanted to go out with those social parasites, those sweet-smelling fashion plates.
That scene was added, and I think that scene is so important to understand Allison's mind-set moving forward, because you see her as this, you know, this sort of sweet, naive girl, and then something massive happens. And then it's, you know.
Daniel is a really, really nice, really sweet person, and he has such a gentle-- a very gentle spirit, I guess you can say.
It's sweet.
You know my aunt keeps calling me and tries to set me up with someone who will make a sweet home with me.
The students of Prague. are living the sweet life!
A sweet little snail.
I'm too sweet and pretty for a dump like this!

News and current affairs

Games between Holland and Germany, for example, or Germany and Poland, tended, until very recently, to be reenactments of the war; either - and most commonly - as melancholy replays of wartime defeat, or as sweet revenge.
If it is legislation rather than a clause in a union contract that regulates health and safety conditions in the workplace, a factory's air will smell just as sweet.
No deal would be sweet enough, even if it included the return of the Golan Heights.
PRINCETON - Sugar is sweet, but the ethics of its production is anything but appealing.
We are genetically programmed to like sweet things, and when people become more affluent, they consume more sugar.
The only way to do that - and prevent an OPEC breakup - would be to reduce the production of light sweet crude, including by US producers, which would thus lose market share.
Over the next few years, US producers are likely to retrench, focus on sweet spots, improve technology, reduce costs, and increase production once again.
Public discussion of new ways to finance retirement pension plans, or of introducing a negative income tax, sounds sweet to economists of all stripes, but it does not exactly mobilize public opinion.
Decoupling is an idea that is based on bad economics - and on some Europeans' reluctance to accept the fact that Europe's short but sweet economic expansion is also coming to an end.
The EU's political standards are high, but the fruits of cooperation are sweet.
Exporters of light sweet crude - such as Algeria, Angola, and Nigeria - lost nearly all of their market share in the US, while exporters of sour or heavier crude, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have lost little.
Sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are comprised of one molecule of glucose (not especially sweet) and one molecule of fructose (very sweet).
SINGAPORE - Asia is poised to enter a historical sweet spot, with three of its most populous countries - China, India, and Indonesia - led by strong, dynamic, and reform-minded leaders.

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