sweet
/swit/ adjective A1- Tasting of sugars. · a sweet apple
- Retaining a portion of sugar. · Sweet wines are better dessert wines.
- Not of a salty taste. · sweet butter
- Having a pleasant smell; fragrant. · a sweet scent
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale. · sweet milk
- Of a pleasant sound. · a sweet tune· Smooth jazz music has sweet drum beats and cymbals!
- Of a pleasing disposition. · a sweet child· It was sweet of her to send some roses for her unwell grandmother.
- Of a helpful disposition. · It was sweet of him to help out.
Comparative sweeter · Superlative sweetest
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Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
She’s a delicate thing—dresses always in white; and the sweetest, simplest manners!
And through the window came a wandering—perhaps a lost—odour—a delicate, sweet odour of lilac that fixed the broker for a moment immovable.
To the society bud comes but one début; it stands alone sweet in her memory when her hair has whitened; but to Chandler each ten weeks brought a joy as keen, as thrilling, as new as the first had been.
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