sweet

Having a taste like sugar.

• These grapes are sweet.
• The cake was too sweet for me.
• Do you prefer sweet or sour apples?

Similar words: sugary

Opposites: bitter, sour

Common phrases: sweet taste, sweet fruit, sweet tea, too sweet

Kind, pleasant, or easy to like.

• Your little sister is sweet.
• That was a sweet thing to say.
• It was sweet of him to help us.

How to use it: it is sweet of someone to do something (It was sweet of you to bring me flowers.)

Similar words: kind, nice, lovely

Opposites: unkind, mean

Common phrases: sweet child, sweet smile, sweet of someone, sweet little something

Having a pleasant smell, often like flowers or fruit.

• The flowers have a sweet smell.
• A sweet scent filled the garden.
• She loved the sweet perfume of the roses.

Similar words: fragrant

Opposites: foul

Common phrases: sweet smell, sweet scent, sweet perfume, sweet fragrance

Having no added salt or salty taste.

• Use sweet butter for this cake.
• She spread sweet butter on the bread.
• The recipe calls for sweet rather than salted butter.

Similar words: unsalted

Opposites: salty, salted

Common phrases: sweet butter, fresh sweet butter, sweet cream butter

Used to show that you are pleased about something.

• “We got free tickets.” “Sweet!”
• “The game is on sale.” “Oh, sweet!”
• “You can borrow my bike.” “Sweet, thanks!”

Similar words: great, awesome, brilliant

Common phrases: oh sweet, sweet thanks

A small piece of food made with sugar, often eaten as a treat.

• Would you like a sweet?
• She bought a bag of sweets.
• The children shared their sweets after lunch.

Similar words: candy, confection

Common phrases: a sweet, boiled sweet, sweet shop, eat a sweet

A dish, usually sugary, eaten at the end of a meal.

• We had apple pie for our sweet.
• Would you like to order a sweet?
• The waiter brought the sweet menu after dinner.

Similar words: dessert, pudding

Common phrases: sweet menu, sweet course, sweet trolley, a sweet