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sweetish

/ˈswiːtɪʃ/

sweetish adjective: somewhat sweet (all senses).

Adjective

sweetish (comparative more sweetish, superlative most sweetish)

  1. somewhat sweet (all senses)
    • At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, page 46
    • Up half the night, nearly 'til dawn, I can almost see the light in a love that can't go wrong, It's just another sweetish love song.2009, Jeffrey Poppy, Jeff, the Roofer, Reflections of a Double Negative Life

sweetish meaning in Tamil

sweetish in Tamil

சற்று இனிப்புடைய

Forms of sweetish

comparativemore sweetish
superlativemost sweetish

Origin of sweetish

From sweet + -ish.

Words formed from sweetish

Questions about sweetish

What does sweetish mean?
Sweetish means somewhat sweet (all senses).
What is sweetish in Tamil?
Sweetish in Tamil is சற்று இனிப்புடைய. See Sweetish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sweetish?
Sweetish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sweetish?
Sweetish is pronounced /ˈswiːtɪʃ/.

Words near sweetish in the dictionary

  1. sweeties
  2. Sweetin
  3. sweeting
  4. sweetings
  5. Sweetins
  6. sweetish
  7. sweetishly
  8. sweetishness
  9. sweetite
  10. sweetkin
  11. sweetkins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweetish (page history and authors); sweetish (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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