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S: (n) Sweet, Henry Sweet (English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912))
S: (n) dessert, sweet, afters (a dish served as the last course of a meal)
S: (n) sweet, confection (a food rich in sugar)
S: (n) sweet, sweetness, sugariness (the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth)
S: (n) sweetness, sweet (the property of tasting as if it contains sugar)

S: (adj) sweet (having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar)
S: (adj) angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet (having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub) "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition"
S: (adj) dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet (pleasing to the ear) "the dulcet tones of the cello"
S: (adj) sweet (pleasing to the senses) "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
S: (adj) gratifying, sweet (pleasing to the mind or feeling) "sweet revenge"
S: (adj) odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling (having a natural fragrance) "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers"
S: (adj) sweet ((used of wines) having a high residual sugar content) "sweet dessert wines"
S: (adj) fresh, sweet (not containing or composed of salt water) "fresh water"
S: (adj) fresh, sweet, unfermented (not soured or preserved) "sweet milk"
S: (adj) sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored (with sweetening added)

S: (adv) sweetly, sweet (in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')) "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other"