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| Shopping | The largest selection of SWEET products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | swiy't |
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| Rhymes | aesthete, athlete, backseat, and 73 more rhymes in iyt... |
| Meaning | Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar. |
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| Contrary | sour |
| Similar | cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly; sweetish |
| See also | sugary; sweet; tasty |
| Nouns | sweetness; sweetness |
| Meaning | Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub. |
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| Examples | "a sweet disposition" |
| Synonyms | angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic |
| Similar to | lovable, loveable |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Adverbs | sweetly |
| Meaning | Pleasing to the ear. |
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| Synonyms | dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant |
| Similar to | melodious, melodic, musical |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Meaning | Pleasing to the senses. |
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| Examples | "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child" |
| Similar to | pleasing |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Meaning | Pleasing to the mind or feeling. |
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| Examples | "sweet revenge" |
| Synonyms | gratifying |
| Similar to | pleasing |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Meaning | Having a natural fragrance. |
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| Synonyms | odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling |
| Similar to | fragrant |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Meaning | (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content. |
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| Examples | "sweet dessert wines" |
| Contrary | dry |
| See also | sugary; sweet |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Meaning | Not containing or composed of salt water. |
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| Synonyms | fresh |
| Contrary | salty |
| Meaning | Not soured or preserved. |
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| Examples | "sweet milk" |
| Synonyms | fresh, unfermented |
| Similar to | unsoured |
| Meaning | With sweetening added. |
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| Synonyms | sugared, sweetened, sweet-flavored |
| Similar to | sugary |
| Nouns | sweetness |
| Meaning | English phonetician. One of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912). |
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| Synonyms | Henry Sweet |
| Instance of | phonetician |
| Meaning | A dish served as the last course of a meal. |
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| Synonyms | dessert, afters |
| Broader | course |
| Narrower | ambrosia; baked Alaska; blancmange; charlotte; compote, fruit compote; dumpling; flan; frozen dessert; junket; mousse; peach melba; whip; pudding; syllabub, sillabub; tiramisu; trifle; zabaglione, sabayon |
| Meaning | A food rich in sugar. |
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| Synonyms | confection |
| Broader | dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| Narrower | confectionery; confiture; sweetmeat; candy, confect; hardbake; chewing gum, gum; candied apple, candy apple, taffy apple, caramel apple, toffee apple; center, centre; comfit; maraschino, maraschino cherry; nonpareil |
| Meaning | The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth. |
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| Synonyms | sweetness, sugariness |
| Broader | taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception |
| Meaning | The property of tasting as if it contains sugar. |
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| Synonyms | sweetness |
| Broader | taste property |
| Narrower | saccharinity; sugariness |
| Meaning | In an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'). |
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| Examples | "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" |
| Synonyms | sweetly |
| Category | poetry, poesy, verse |
| Usage | colloquialism |
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