1. Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
   "The sweet taste of ripe strawberries was irresistible"
    
2. Pleasing to the senses
   "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
    
3. Pleasing to the mind or feeling
   "sweet revenge";
   - gratifying
    
4. Having a kind personality, befitting an angel or cherub
   "a sweet disposition";
   - angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic
    
5. Pleasing to the ear
   "the sweet tones of the cello";
   - dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellifluent
    
6. Having a natural fragrance
   "sweet spices"; "sweet-scented spices"; "sweet-smelling spices";
   - odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, odiferous
    
7. (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
   "sweet dessert wines"
    
8. Not containing or composed of salt water
   "sweet water";
   - fresh
    
9. Not soured or preserved
   "sweet milk";
   - fresh, unfermented
    
10. With sweetening added
    "sweet wines were a great feature of Jacobean, and (before that) of Elizabethan, banquets"; "She preferred sweet-flavoured coffee to bitter black coffee";
    - sugared, sweetened, sweet-flavored [US], sweet-flavoured [Brit, Cdn]

1. [Brit] A rich sweet made of flavoured sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
   "The shop offered a variety of sweets";
   - candy, confect, sweetie [Brit, informal], lolly [Austral, NZ]
    
2. [Brit] A dish served as the last course of a meal
   "For sweet, they ordered a slice of chocolate cake to share";
   - dessert, afters [Brit, informal]
    
3. A food rich in sugar
   "After dinner, they indulged in a variety of sweets from the dessert trolley";
   - confection
    
4. The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
   "The candy left a lingering sweet on his tongue";
   - sweetness, sugariness
    
5. The property of tasting as if it contains sugar
   "The sweet of the honey balanced the spicy sauce";
   - sweetness

1. In an affectionate or loving manner (‘sweet’ is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of ‘sweetly’)
   "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"; "talking sweet to each other";
   - sweetly

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

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Derived forms: sweets, sweeter, sweetest

See also: cloying, fragrant, lovable, loveable [rare], melodic, melodious, musical, pleasing, saccharine, sugary, sweetish, syrupy, tasty, treacly, unsoured

Type of: course, dainty, delicacy, goody, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, kickshaw [archaic], phonetician, taste, taste perception, taste property, taste sensation, treat

Antonym: dry, sour

Encyclopedia: Sweet, Robert