Meaning of sweet in English
sweet adjective (PLEASANT)
I think Alex is really sweet.
It was sweet of you to help me.
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Idioms
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Idiom
used to show that you are happy about something or think it is good:
(Definition of sweet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of sweet
sweet
The useful product is the bean, relatively heavy seeds that ripen within sweet red fruits.
The sweet tooth exhibits specificity and proficiency for motivating people to seek out such foods or to choose these foods when given a choice.
They also enhanced their beauty through facial tattooing, washing daily, plaiting and applying red ochre to their hair, wearing sweet-smelling leaves and using love medicines.
Common species of vegetables cultivated on the plots were tomato, spinach, potato, sweet potato and chillies.
It is harder to think of analogous compliments, sweet nothings, or creative compromises.
Abbreviated life cycles in trematodes : short is sweet?
In 2000-2001, our western wheatgrass also contained some volunteer sweet clover, which decreased forage quality and reduced perennial grass yield.
A lively dance of warriors proves more to his liking, but he requests something of a sweeter nature.
Others consciously reordered the client as a baby - sweet, innocent of intent in making a mess, and vulnerable.
This is a simple, beautiful story, elemental and rich as bread itself - hot, cruel, and sweet as love.
It has the same calories as sugar but is only half as sweet.
They went away a couple of weeks ago and brought me back slippers and a bar of chocolate, it was really sweet.
He forsakes the long-postponed pleasures of the marriage bed for the sweeter pleasure of revenge.
The sweet emotion of compassion starts to arise in the rock-hard hearts.
Explorers opening presents, sweets and cigars etc. are cheap now.
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Translations of sweet
in Chinese (Traditional)
味道, （尤指食物或飲料）甜的, 愉快的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
味道, （尤指食物或饮料）甜的, 愉快的…
in Spanish
dulce, mono, amable…
in Portuguese
doce, gracioso, bonitinho…
in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Arabic in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Malay in German
in Norwegian
in Korean
in Ukrainian
in Italian
in Russian
sucré/-ée, agréable, gentil/gentille…
حُلو المَذاق, جَذّاب, لَطيف…
sladký, čerstvý, melodický…
มีรสหวาน, ที่สดใหม่, ที่หอม…
ngọt, có vị mật ong, tươi…
солодкий, свіжий, духмяний…
сладкий, милый, прелестный…
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