sweet

Adjective

sweet (comparative sweeter, superlative sweetest)

1. Tasting of sugars.
   • a sweet apple
   • A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired
2. Retaining a portion of sugar.
   • Sweet wines are better dessert wines.

   Synonyms:

   saccharine, sugary

3. Not of a salty taste.
   • sweet butter

   Synonyms:

   fresh, unsalty

4. Having a pleasant smell; fragrant.
   • a sweet scent
   • Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, / I will give them all back again.1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Reaper and the Flowers”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, page 8

   Synonyms:

   fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling

5. Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
   • sweet milk

   Synonyms:

   fresh, unfermented, wholesome

6. Of a pleasant sound.
   • a sweet tune
   • Smooth jazz music has sweet drum beats and cymbals!

   Synonyms:

   dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant

7. Of a pleasing disposition.
   • a sweet child
   • It was sweet of her to send some roses for her unwell grandmother.

   Synonyms:

   cute, lovable, pleasant

8. Of a helpful disposition.
   • It was sweet of him to help out.

   Synonyms:

   kind, gracious, helpful, sensitive, thoughtful

9. Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
   • sweet gas
   • sweet soil
10. (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.
    • The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift.
    • Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1

    Synonyms:

    rad, awesome, wicked

11. (Australia, slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.
    • "Visit in two days though," said Tommo. "Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then."2012, John Hoskison, Inside: One Man's Experience of Prison

    Synonyms:

    sugared, sweetened

12. (informal) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
    • The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight.

Interjection

1. Used as a positive response to good news or information.
   • They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!

Adverb

sweet (comparative more sweet, superlative most sweet)

1. In a pleasant manner.
   • Go down beside thy native rill,
     ⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet,
     ⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweet
     About the ledges of the hill.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 57

   Synonyms:

   sweetly

Noun

sweet (countable and uncountable, plural sweets)

1. (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.

   Synonyms:

   sweetness

2. (India, UK, countable, especially) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.

   Synonyms:

   bonbon, candy, confection, confectionery, lolly

3. (UK, countable, especially) A food eaten for dessert.
   • Can we see the sweet menu, please?

   Synonyms:

   dessert

4. Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection.
   • VVherefore frovvnes my ſvveet? / Haue I too long bene abſent from theſe lips, / This cheeke, theſe eyes?1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act I, signature B2, verso
   • "You think that I'll take anything."
     "I know you will, sweet..."
     "There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be."
     "Well, there is now," she said sweetly.1936 Aug., Ernest Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Cosmopolitan

   Synonyms:

   sweetheart

5. (obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.
   • a wilderness of sweets1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
6. (obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.
   • Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar.1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, III.2

Verb

sweet (third-person singular simple present sweets, present participle sweeting, simple past and past participle sweeted)

1. (archaic, poetic) To sweeten.
   • In size and shape it resembles the heart of a calf, and the interior substance is similar to thick cream, sweeted with fine sugar.1825, John Breckinridge, C.R. Harrison, Western Luminary ... - Volume 1, page 318
   • It might also be given in the form of a mixture — the drug being insoluble in a watery menstruum — suspended by the aid of mucilage and sweeted by any of the various flavoring syrups.1890, The Cincinnati Lancet-clinic - Volume 63, page 331

Proper noun capitalized: Sweet

Sweet

1. A surname.
2. A female given name.
3. An unincorporated community in Gem County, Idaho, United States.