sweet

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')

   Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly

2. 2
   adj

   pleasing to the mind or feeling

   sweet revenge

3. 3
   adj

   pleasing to the senses

   the sweet song of the lark

4. 4
   adj

   (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content

   sweet dessert wines

5. 5
   adj

   not soured or preserved

   sweet milk

6. 6
   adj

   Tasting of sugars.

   a sweet apple

7. 7
   adj

   Retaining a portion of sugar.

   Sweet wines are better dessert wines.

8. 8
   adj

   Not of a salty taste.

   sweet butter

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus Proto-Germanic *swōtuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *swōtī Old English swēte Middle English swete English sweet From Middle English swete, from Old English swēte (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”). Cognate and synonymous with Scots sweit (“sweet”), North Frisian sweete (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), Germ…