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honey-sweet

honey-sweet adjective: as sweet as honey; very sweet.

Adjective

honey-sweet (comparative more honey-sweet or (rare) honey-sweeter, superlative most honey-sweet or (rare) honey-sweetest)

  1. As sweet as honey; very sweet.
    • Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Job Has a Presentiment”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 253
    • Cheerfully, and in my honey-sweetest voice I asked: “Can you give me a dime for two nickels?”1942 October 24, Pat McVean, ““Black-Out” Nickel Fools Many People”, in The Leader-Post, volume XXXIV, number 251, Regina, Sask., page three, column 4

honey-sweet meaning in Tamil

honey-sweet in Tamil

தேன்போல் இனிப்பான

Examples of honey-sweet in a sentence

  • At her honey-sweetest of course, but “My husband and I do not care to have our daughter involved in friendships of this nature.”1974, Jan Wolkers, translated by Greta Kilburn, Turkish Delight, [New York, N.Y.]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, →ISBN, page 32:
  • And just because she was feeling a little snippy, she said in the honey-sweetest tone possible, “Want me to come help pack your bags?”2009, Dorien Kelly, Over the Wall, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 149:

Forms of honey-sweet

comparativemore honey-sweet
superlativemost honey-sweet
comparative (rare)honey-sweeter
superlative (rare)honey-sweetest

Origin of honey-sweet

From Middle English hony-swete; equivalent to honey + sweet.

Questions about honey-sweet

What does honey-sweet mean?
Honey-sweet means as sweet as honey; very sweet.
What is honey-sweet in Tamil?
Honey-sweet in Tamil is தேன்போல் இனிப்பான. See Honey-sweet meaning in Tamil.
How do you use honey-sweet in a sentence?
At her honey-sweetest of course, but “My husband and I do not care to have our daughter involved in friendships of this nature.”
What part of speech is honey-sweet?
Honey-sweet is an adjective.

Words near honey-sweet in the dictionary

  1. honey-mouthed
  2. honey-plant
  3. honey-plants
  4. honey-pot ant
  5. honey-pot ants
  6. honey-sweet
  7. honey-sweetest
  8. honey-tongued
  9. honey-trap
  10. honey-traps
  11. honeybadger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: honey-sweet (page history and authors); honey-sweet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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