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- Dictionarysweet/swiːt/
adjective
- 1. having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar or honey; not salt, sour, or bitter: "a cup of hot sweet tea" Similar Opposite
- 2. pleasing in general; delightful: "it was the sweet life he had always craved" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. a small shaped piece of sweet food made with sugar: British "a bag of sweets" Similar
- 2. a sweet dish forming a course of a meal; a pudding or dessert. British Similar
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SWEET definition: 1. (especially of food or drink) having a taste similar to that of sugar; not bitter or salty: 2…. Learn more.
Sweets are small sweet things such as toffees, chocolates, and mints. A sweet is something sweet, such as fruit or a pudding, that you eat at the end of a meal, especially in a restaurant. The sweet was a mousse flavoured with coffee. A sweet smell is a pleasant one, for example the smell of a flower.
The meaning of SWEET is being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is usually pleasing to the taste and typically induced by sugars (as sucrose or glucose). How to use sweet in a sentence.
Sweet definition: having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.. See examples of SWEET used in a sentence.
SWEET meaning: 1. (especially of food or drink) having a taste similar to that of sugar; not bitter or salty: 2…. Learn more.
Sweet can be an adjective or a noun. It can describe something pleasing to the senses, like a sweet song, or when you're playing basketball and get nothing but net. Sweet! As a noun, it's a confection, a little something for dessert. The poet Khalil Gibran said, “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Definition of sweet adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.