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unsweetened

unsweetened adjective: not sweetened. Also the simple past and past participle of unsweeten.

Adjective

unsweetened (comparative more unsweetened, superlative most unsweetened)

  1. Not sweetened.
    • “People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverages,” said Francesco Branca, the W.H.O. director for nutrition and food safety.2023 May 15, April Rubin, “World Health Organization Warns Against Using Artificial Sweeteners”, in The New York Times

Also used as

unsweetened is also the simple past and past participle of unsweeten.

Forms of unsweetened

comparativemore unsweetened
superlativemost unsweetened

Origin of unsweetened

From un- + sweetened.

Questions about unsweetened

What does unsweetened mean?
Unsweetened means not sweetened.
What part of speech is unsweetened?
Unsweetened is an adjective.

Words near unsweetened in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsweetened (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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