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Adjective sweet has 11 senses
- sweet - having a pleasant taste (as of sugar)
Antonyms: sour, acerb, acerbic, astringent, sharp, acetose, acetous, vinegary, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acidulated, lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart, subacid
- angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet - having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition"
Antonym: hateful (indirect, via lovable)
- dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet - pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"
Antonyms: unmelodious, unmelodic, unmusical (indirect, via melodious)
- sweet - one of the four basic taste sensations; very pleasant; like the taste of sugar or honey
Antonym: tasteless (indirect, via tasteful)
- sweet - pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
Antonym: displeasing (indirect, via pleasing)
- gratifying, sweet - pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge"
Antonym: displeasing (indirect, via pleasing)
- odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling - having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers"
Antonyms: malodorous, malodourous (indirect, via fragrant)
- sweet - (used of wines) having a sweet taste
Antonyms: dry, brut, sec, unsweet
- fresh, sweet, unfermented - not soured or preserved; "sweet milk"
Antonym: soured (indirect, via unsoured)
- sugared, sweetened, sweet - with sweetening added
Antonyms: sugarless, nonsweet (indirect, via sugary)
- sweet, unsalty - not having a salty taste; "sweet water"
Antonym: salt (indirect, via fresh)
Adverbial sweet has 1 sense
- sweetly, sweet - 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"
Noun sweet has 5 senses
- Sweet, Henry Sweet - English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
--1 is a kind of phonetician
- dessert, sweet, afters - a dish served as the last course of a meal
--2 is a kind of course
--2 has particulars:
- sweet, confection, confectionery - a food rich in sugar
--3 is a kind of dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
--3 has particulars:
- sweet, sweetness, sugariness - the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
--4 is a kind of taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
- sweetness, sweet - the property of containing sugar
--5 is a kind of taste property
--5 has particulars: saccharinity; sugariness
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