sweet
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Is sweet a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.Examples: "Sweet wines are better dessert wines."
2. (mineralogy) Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.Examples: "sweet gas"; "sweet soil"; "sweet crude oil"
3. (informal) Very pleasing; agreeable.Examples: "The new Lexus was a sweet birthday gift."; "Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water."; "14 November 2014, Steven Haliday, Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero GORDON Strachan enjoyed the sweetest of his 16 matches in charge of Scotland so far as his team enhanced their prospects of Euro 2016 qualification with a crucial and deserved victory over Republic of Ireland."Synonyms: rad, awesome, wickedinformal
4. (Australia, slang) Doing well; in a good or happy position.Examples: ""Visit in two days though," said Tommo. "Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then.""Synonyms: sugared, sweetenedAustraliaslang
5. (informal, followed by on) Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.Examples: "The attraction was mutual and instant; they were sweet on one another from first sight."informal
6. (of soil, UK, dated) Alkaline.UKdated
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.Synonyms: sweetnessuncountable
2. (countable, especially UK) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.Synonyms: bonbon, candy, confection, confectionery, lollyUKcountableespecially
3. (countable, especially UK) A food eaten for dessert.Examples: "Can we see the sweet menu, please?"Synonyms: dessertUKcountableespecially
4. (obsolete) That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume.Examples: "a wilderness of sweets"countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (obsolete) Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses.Examples: "Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar."countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (archaic or poetic) To sweeten.Examples: "In size and shape it resembles the heart of a calf, and the interior substance is similar to thick cream, sweeted with fine sugar."; "It might also be given in the form of a mixture — the drug being insoluble in a watery menstruum — suspended by the aid of mucilage and sweeted by any of the various flavoring syrups."; "Bring me now where the warm wind blows, where the grasses sigh, where the sweet-tongued blossom flowers; where the shower, fan soft like a fishermans net thrown through the sweeted air."archaicpoetic
Definition source: Wiktionary