sweet

CEFRA1

/swiːt/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Having a taste like sugar.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Kind, pleasant, or lovable.

Examples

  • That's very sweet of you.

  • A cup of hot sweet tea

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /swit/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Not of a salty taste.

  2. Retaining a portion of sugar.

  3. Tasting of sugars.

More examples

In context

  • Good night. Sweet dreams.

  • Sweet wines are better dessert wines.

  • a sweet apple

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us. Cognates Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cut...