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Definition: sweet
sweet
adj 1: having a pleasant taste (as of sugar) [ant:
sour]
2: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub;
“an
angelic smile”;
“a cherubic face”;
“looking so seraphic
when he slept”;
“a sweet disposition” [syn:
angelic,
angelical,
cherubic,
seraphic]
3: pleasing to the ear;
“the dulcet tones of the cello” [syn:
dulcet,
honeyed,
mellifluous,
mellisonant]
4: one of the four basic taste sensations; very pleasant; like
the taste of sugar or honey
5: pleasing to the senses;
“the sweet song of the lark”;
“the
sweet face of a child”
6: pleasing to the mind or feeling;
“sweet revenge” [syn:
gratifying]
7: having a natural fragrance;
“odoriferous spices”;
“the
odorous air of the orchard”;
“the perfumed air of June”;
“scented flowers” [syn:
odoriferous,
odorous,
perfumed,
scented,
sweet-scented,
sweet-smelling]
8: (used of wines) having a sweet taste [ant:
dry]
9: not soured or preserved;
“sweet milk” [syn:
fresh,
unfermented]
10: with sweetening added [syn:
sugared,
sweetened]
11: not having a salty taste;
“sweet water” [syn:
unsalty]
sweet
adv : 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” [syn:
sweetly]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sweet
Sweet
\Sweet\, n.
1. That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the
plural. Specifically:
(a) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
(b) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
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2. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
“A
wilderness of sweets.” --Milton.
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3. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the
sweets of domestic life.
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A little bitter mingled in our cup leaves no relish
of the sweet. --Locke.
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4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of
endearment.
“Wherefore frowns my sweet?” --B. Jonson.
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Sweet
\Sweet\, a. [Compar.
Sweeter; superl.
Sweetest.] [OE.
swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[=e]te; akin to OFries. sw[=e]te,
OS. sw[=o]ti, D. zoet, G. s["u]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[ae]tr,
s[oe]tr, Sw. s["o]t, Dan. s["o]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for
suadvis, Gr. ?, Skr. sv[=a]du sweet, svad, sv[=a]d, to
sweeten. [root]175. Cf.
Assuage,
Suave,
Suasion.]
1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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The breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--Longfellow.
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3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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To make his English sweet upon his tongue.
--Chaucer.
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A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne.
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4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.
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5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon.
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6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically:
(a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
(b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?
--Job xxxviii.
31.
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Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold.
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Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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Sweet alyssum. (Bot.) See
Alyssum.
Sweet apple. (Bot.)
(a) Any apple of sweet flavor.
(b) See
Sweet-top.
Sweet bay. (Bot.)
(a) The laurel (
laurus nobilis).
(b) Swamp sassafras.
Sweet calabash (Bot.), a plant of the genus
Passiflora
(
P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Sweet cicely. (Bot.)
(a) Either of the North American plants of the
umbelliferous genus
Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray.
(b) A plant of the genus
Myrrhis (
M. odorata) growing
in England.
Sweet calamus, or
Sweet cane. (Bot.) Same as
Sweet flag
, below.
Sweet Cistus (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (
Cistus Ladanum)
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Sweet clover. (Bot.) See
Melilot.
Sweet coltsfoot (Bot.), a kind of butterbur (
Petasites sagittata
) found in Western North America.
Sweet corn (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
See the Note under
Corn.
Sweet fern (Bot.), a small North American shrub (
Comptonia asplenifolia
syn.
Myrica asplenifolia) having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
Sweet flag (Bot.), an endogenous plant (
Acorus Calamus)
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and
America. See
Calamus, 2.
Sweet gale (Bot.), a shrub (
Myrica Gale) having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called
sweet willow, and
Dutch myrtle
. See 5th
Gale.
Sweet grass (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass.
Sweet gum (Bot.), an American tree (
Liquidambar styraciflua
). See
Liquidambar.
Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
Sweet John (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William.
Sweet leaf (Bot.), horse sugar. See under
Horse.
Sweet marjoram. (Bot.) See
Marjoram.
Sweet marten (Zo["o]l.), the pine marten.
Sweet maudlin (Bot.), a composite plant (
Achillea Ageratum
) allied to milfoil.
Sweet oil, olive oil.
Sweet pea. (Bot.) See under
Pea.
Sweet potato. (Bot.) See under
Potato.
Sweet rush (Bot.), sweet flag.
Sweet spirits of niter (Med. Chem.) See
Spirit of nitrous ether
, under
Spirit.
Sweet sultan (Bot.), an annual composite plant (
Centaurea moschata
), also, the yellow-flowered (
C. odorata); --
called also
sultan flower.
Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. [Colloq.]
Sweet William.
(a) (Bot.) A species of pink (
Dianthus barbatus) of many
varieties.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) The willow warbler.
(c) (Zo["o]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also
sweet Billy. [Prov. Eng.]
Sweet willow (Bot.), sweet gale.
Sweet wine. See
Dry wine, under
Dry.
To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
[Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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Sweet
\Sweet\, adv.
Sweetly. --Shak.
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Sweet
\Sweet\, v. t.
To sweeten. [Obs.] --Udall.
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