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sweet

Pronunciation: /swiːt/

The English word “sweet” has 20 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Tasting of sugars.
  2. Retaining a portion of sugar.
  3. Not of a salty taste.
  4. Having a pleasant smell; fragrant.
  5. Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
  6. Of a pleasant sound.
  7. Of a pleasing disposition.
  8. Of a helpful disposition.
  9. Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
  10. Very pleasing; agreeable.
  11. Doing well; in a good or happy position.
  12. Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
  13. Fresh; not salt or brackish.
  14. Alkaline.
  15. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
  16. An intensifier.

interjection

  1. Used as a positive response to good news or information.

adverb

  1. In a pleasant manner.

noun

  1. The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
  2. A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.

Etymology

From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us. Cognates Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”),…

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