sweet /swēt/

1. Having one of the fundamental varieties of taste, that of sugar, honey, ripe fruits (distinguished from salt, acid or sour, bitter, dry)
2. Sugary
3. Pleasing to the taste, senses or feelings
4. Fragrant
5. Clear and tuneful
6. Smoothly running
7. Easy, free from harshness, benign
8. (of water) fresh, not salt
9. (of milk) fresh, not tainted
10. (of wine, ale, etc) not dry or bitter, retaining a sugary or fruity flavour
11. Wholesome
12. Gracious
13. Amiable
14. Mild, soft, gentle
15. Delightful, charming (informal)
16. All right, satisfactory (Aust informal)
17. Dear, beloved (archaic)
18. Ingratiating, often insipidly
19. Cloying or sickly in taste, smell, etc
20. More or less enamoured (with on or upon; informal)

Sweetly

1. That which is sweet
2. A sweet dish (pudding, fruit, etc) as a course
3. A sweetmeat, confection, esp a boiled sweet (see under boil¹)
4. (a form of address used to) a beloved person
5. (in pl) wines and cordials sweetened with syrup

To sweeten

sweetˈen transitive verb

1. To make sweet
2. To mitigate something unpleasant
3. To pacify, make (a person) agreeable (often with up)

sweetˈener noun

1. A substance that sweetens, esp one not containing sugar
2. A person who sweetens
3. A bribe (informal)

sweetˈening noun

sweetˈie or sweetˈy noun

1. A sweetmeat, item of confectionery
2. A sweetheart (informal)
3. (sweetie; often with cap) a large, seedless citrus fruit with greenish-yellow skin, its pulp sweeter than that of the grapefruit

sweetˈing noun

1. A sweet apple
2. A darling (archaic)

sweetˈish adjective

sweetˈishness noun

sweetˈly adverb

sweetˈness noun

sweety noun see sweetie above

sweet alyssum see under alyssum

sweetˈ-and-sourˈ adjective

1. Cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice
2. (in Oriental cookery) having a seasoning of sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, etc

sweetˈ-and-twenˈty adjective

Both fair and young (after Shakespeare, who perhaps meant only sweet indeed; see also and twenty under twenty)

sweet bay noun

1. The laurel (Laurus nobilis)
2. A kind of magnolia (US)

sweetˈbread noun

The pancreas (stomach sweetbread), or sometimes the thymus (neck sweetbread), esp as a food

sweetˈbrier or sweetˈbriar noun

A wild rose with fragrant foliage (Rosa rubiginosa)

sweet chestnut see chestnut

sweet cicely noun

An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Myrrhis odorata)

sweetˈcorn noun

1. A sweet variety of maize
2. The yellow kernels of this, eaten as a vegetable

sweet Fanny Adams see under Fanny Adams

sweetfish see ayu

sweet flag noun

An aromatic araceous pond-plant (Acorus calamus)

sweet gale noun

Bog myrtle, a low-growing aromatic shrub found in bogs

sweet gas noun

Hydrocarbon gas without sulphur compounds

sweet gum noun

1. The N American liquidambar
2. Its aromatic resin

sweetˈheart noun

A lover or beloved

transitive verb and intransitive verb

To court

sweetheart agreement, contract, etc noun

An agreement between a trade union and an employer that excessively favours the employer, and is often concluded without the consent of higher-ranking trade union officials

sweetheart ivy see shield ivy under shield

sweetheart neckline noun

A low heart-shaped neckline on a woman's garment

sweetˈie-pie noun (informal)

A term of endearment

sweetˈie-wife noun (Scot)

1. A woman who sells sweets
2. (esp of an effeminate man) a gossip, scandalmonger

sweetˈlips or sweetˈlip singular noun

Any of several fish of the grunt family with large fleshy lips

sweetˈmeal adjective

(of biscuits) made of wholemeal and sweetened

sweetˈmeat noun

1. Any confection made wholly or chiefly of sugar
2. Any sweet food (obsolete)

sweet nothings see under nothing

sweetˈ-oil noun

1. Olive oil
2. Rape-oil
3. Any oil of mild pleasant taste

• to the very fibre of one's being
• to the wide
• to think of it
• totidem verbis
• totient
• totients
• toties quoties
• toting
• totipalmate
• totipalmation
• totipalmations
• totipotencies
• totipotency
• totipotent
• totitive
• totitives
• toto caelo
• to-torne
• tots
• totted
• totter
• tottered
• totterer
• totterers
• tottering