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unsweet

unsweet adjective: not sweet.

Adjective

unsweet (comparative more unsweet, superlative most unsweet)

  1. Not sweet.
    • That each, who seems a separate whole,
      ⁠Should move his rounds, and fusing all
      ⁠The skirts of self again, should fall
      Remerging in the general Soul,
      Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69
    • Again I sank in that repose unsweet,
      Again a clashing noise my slumber rent; […]1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part XX

Synonyms of unsweet

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All synonyms and antonyms of unsweet

Forms of unsweet

comparativemore unsweet
superlativemost unsweet

Origin of unsweet

From Middle English unswete, from Old English unswēte (“unsweet; bitter; sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī, from Proto-Germanic *unswōtuz (“unsweet”), equivalent to un- + sweet. Cognate with West Frisian ûnswiet (“unsweet”), Dutch onzoet (“unsweet”), German Low German unsööt (“unsweet”), German unsüß (“unsweet”), Swedish osöt (“unsweet”), Icelandic ósætur (“unsweet”).

Words formed from unsweet

Questions about unsweet

What does unsweet mean?
Unsweet means not sweet.
What part of speech is unsweet?
Unsweet is an adjective.

Words near unsweet in the dictionary

  1. unsweat
  2. unsweated
  3. unsweating
  4. unsweats
  5. unsweepable
  6. unsweet
  7. unsweeten
  8. unsweetened
  9. unsweetening
  10. unsweetens
  11. unsweetly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsweet (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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