Definitions
Having a sugary taste; also pleasant or kind.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“a sweet apple”
“Sweet wines are better dessert wines.”
“sweet butter”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Sugary in taste”5 letters
02“Pleasingly sugary or kind”5 letters
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