Word Meanings - SWEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. sætr, soetr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor

Additional info about word: SWEET

swote, sote, AS. swete; akin to OFries. swete, OS. swoti, D. zoet, G. süss, OHG. suozi, Icel. sætr, soetr, Sw. söt, Dan. söd, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. 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. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. Longfellow. 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. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. Bacon. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. Sweet alyssum. See Alyssum. -- Sweet apple. Any apple of sweet flavor. See Sweet- top. -- Sweet bay. The laurel . Swamp sassafras. -- Sweet calabash , 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. Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus Osmorrhiza having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. Gray. A plant of the genus Myrrhis (M. odorata) growing in England. -- Sweet calamus, or Sweet cane. Same as Sweet flag, below. -- Sweet Cistus , an evergreen shrub from which the gum ladanum is obtained. -- Sweet clover. See Melilot. -- Sweet coltsfoot , a kind of butterbur found in Western North America. -- Sweet corn , a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under Corn. -- Sweet fern , a small North American shrub (Comptonia, or Myrica, asplenifolia) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. -- Sweet flag , an endogenous plant 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 , a shrub having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and Dutch myrtle. See 5th Gale. Sweet grass , holy, or Seneca, grass. -- Sweet gum , an American tree . See Liquidambar. -- Sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. -- Sweet John , a variety of the sweet William. -- Sweet leaf , horse sugar. See under Horse. -- Sweet marjoram. See Marjoram. -- Sweet marten , the pine marten. -- Sweet maudlin , a composite plant allied to milfoil. -- Sweet oil, olive oil. -- Sweet pea. See under Pea. -- Sweet potato. See under Potato. -- Sweet rush , sweet flag. -- Sweet spirits of niter See Spirit of nitrous ether, under Spirit. -- Sweet sultan , an annual composite plant (Centaurea moschata), also, the yellow-flowered ; -- called also sultan flower. -- Sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. -- Sweet William. A species of pink of many varieties. The willow warbler. The European goldfinch; -- called also sweet Billy. -- Sweet willow , 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. Thackeray. Syn. -- Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWEET)

• Darling
• Pet
• love
• sweet
• pretty
• dear
• favorite
• delight
• Dulcet
• Sweet
• soothing
• melodious
• soft
• warbling
• euphonious
• Luscious
• delicious
• sugary
• honied
• delightful
• toothsome
• delightsome

Related words: (words related to SWEET)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• HONIED
  See HONEYED
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• LUSCIOUS
  1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. 2. Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. 3. Gratifying a depraved sense;
• PRETTYISM
  Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc. Ed. Rev.
• SWEETWORT
  Any plant of a sweet taste.
• SOOTHNESS
  Truth; reality. Chaucer.
• PRETTY-SPOKEN
  Spoken or speaking prettily.
• CINCHONIC
  Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.
• SULPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain
• CINCHONINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
• PYTHONIST
  A conjurer; a diviner.
• SIPHONIATA
  See SIPHONATA
• CINCHONIZE
  To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
• PYROTHONIDE
  A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent. Dunglison.
• CINCHONIDINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
• PHOSPHONIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.