sweet
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
How often you will meet it
Rank 575 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 33,922 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.016% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
- having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub also: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic an angelic smilea cherubic face
- pleasing to the ear also: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant the dulcet tones of the cello
- pleasing to the senses the sweet song of the larkthe sweet face of a child
- pleasing to the mind or feeling also: gratifying sweet revenge
- having a natural fragrance also: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling odoriferous spicesthe odorous air of the orchard
sweet in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The heat Is stifling, but out here the air is sweet.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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What remembrances, bitter or sweet, came over the widower's heart, Heaven knows!
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Mary Taylor, twenty-three, modest, sweet, winning, and in character and person beautiful, was all in all to him.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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She's a lady born, too, for all her simple, every-day way; and she's a sweet creature, if ever there was one.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet!
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1