Sweetness
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Sweet is the basic taste sensation of sweetness, associated with sugars.
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Adjective
- Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar
- Having a taste of sugar
- Containing a sweetening ingredient
- (of a wine) retaining a portion of natural sugar
- Not having a salty taste
- sweet butter
- sweet water
- Having a pleasant smell
- a sweet scent
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale
- sweet milk
- Having a pleasant sound
- a sweet tune
- a sweet voice
- Having a pleasing disposition
- a sweet child
- Having a helpful disposition
- It was sweet of him to help out.
- Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur
- sweet soil
- sweet crude oil
Synonyms
- (having a taste of sugar): saccharine, sugary
- (containing a sweetening ingredient): sugared, sweetened
- (not having a salty taste): fresh, unsalty
- (having a pleasant smell): fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling
- (not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale): fresh, unfermented, wholesome
- (having a pleasant sound): dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant
- (having a pleasing disposition): cute, lovable, pleasant
- (having a helpful disposition): kind, gracious, helpful, sensitive, thoughtful
Antonyms
- (having a pleasant taste): bitter, sour, salty
- (containing a sweetening ingredient): nonsweet, sugarless, unsugared, unsweetened
- (of wines: retaining a portion of natural sugar): dry
- (not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale): decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, stale
- (not having a salty taste): salty
- (free from excessive unwanted substances): sour
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