Definition of Sweet

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Definition of Sweet

Sweet

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.

Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.

Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.

Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.

Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.

Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.

That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.

Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.

That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.

That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.

One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.

Sweetly.

To sweeten.

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Sweet Quotations

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

Sweet Translations

sweet in Afrikaans is lieflik, soet, lekkers
sweet in Dutch is zoet, oppassend
sweet in Finnish is makea
sweet in French is doux
sweet in Italian is caramella, dolce, dessert, abboccato
sweet in Latin is dulcis
sweet in Portuguese is doce
sweet in Spanish is dulce, caramglo

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