sweetened

CEFRB1

/swˈitənd/

adjective · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Made sweeter by adding sugar or another sweet substance.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    containing sweetener

Examples

  • Tom sweetened his tea with honey; Mary didn't sweeten hers at all.

  • Japan’s "yōkan" is a dessert made of sweetened mung beans.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. made to taste sweet

  2. made more appealing or more attractive with incentives

verb

Extra meaning

  1. simple past and past participle of sweeten

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The iced tea was artificially blank with a sugar substitute to reduce calories.

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Origin

adjective

From sweeten + -ed.