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say it: sweet
sweet is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar". It is pronounced /ˈswit/ — sweet. It carries 16 recorded senses.
having a natural fragrance
“odoriferous spices”
“the odorous air of the orchard”
“the perfumed air of June”
“scented flowers”
with sweetening added
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
a dish served as the last course of a meal
a food rich in sugar
the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
“Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly”
“how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank”
“talking sweet to each other”
colloquialism · poetry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sweet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.