Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. A past tense and a past participle of honey.
- adj. Containing, full of, or sweetened with honey.
- adj. Ingratiating; sugary: honeyed words.
- adj. Sweet; dulcet: a honeyed voice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Covered with, abounding in, or as sweet as honey.
- Hence Sweet; dulcet; soothing; mollifying: as, honeyed words.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Covered with honey.
- adj. Sweet, .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. with honey added
- adj. pleasing to the ear
Examples
“If conditions are just right, the botrytis will concentrate the sugars while leaving the acid intact, resulting in honeyed tropical-fruit flavors.”
“I have one more request to make," he remarked in honeyed tones.”
“Hey, wait, the "honeyed" - "smoked" combo conjures the idea of ham, but pert-faced Breach is in no way hammy.”
The Huffington Post: David Finkle: Easy Listener: Why You Should Know Singer Joyce Breach
“ Everything about the babas was disgusting to Jory, no matter how they tried to placate him with gifts of human candy and shining fungal balls called honeyed sea foam that tasted subtly like caramel.”
“And down what Dinky-Dunk once called the honeyed corners of my mouth went another pair of lines which clearly came from too much laughing.”
“In the mouth it is beautiful and delicate with pineapple, gooseberry, and green apple flavors that are framed by what I can only describe as a honeyed complexion.”
“Bones" recalled the honeyed nostalgia of their debut, yet for all its romanticised portrayal of blue collar Americana, Sam's Town isn't set in the same galaxy as Nebraska, no matter what PR flacks might have you believe.”
“And through their clothes choices, the parents have created the kind of honeyed faultlessness that jams mailboxes every December when personalized Christmas cards arrive bringing greetings "to you and yours" from the Blake family or the Joneses.”
“Up A Creek Without A PatL: "honeyed" walnuts sugared walnuts”
“Some years back, I found this recipe for "honeyed" walnuts in my favorite Chinese cookbook, Susanna Foo's Chinese Cuisine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘honeyed’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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honey phrases/words
how honey is used
honey-cup, corn honey, honey-bun, honey-bag, honey ant, honey-dun, honey-man, honey-fly, honey-balm, clarified honey, clover honey, honey agaric and 205 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...
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smoooth
satined, sleek, glossy, legato, uncrannied, suave, smoothen, polish, satiny, flowing, levigate, politic and 78 more...
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Purr words
Please add one snarl word for every purr word, in the interests of harmony.
Note: this list is for purr words. Snarl words belong on the other list, not this one. Only purr words need ...bumblebee, kitten, hummingbird, turtledove, felt, daffodil, hourglass, surf, satyr, gloved, honeyed, raspberry and 9 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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✿
adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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odorific
smelling words
odoriferous, malodorous, heavenly, redolent, putrid, delectable, stagnant, fragrant, smelly, noisome, noxious, fetid and 47 more...
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tralala's Words
arch, enigmatic, inexplicable, captivating, merry, advantageous, appropriate, compelling, alluring, wicked, inept, douse and 200 more...
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Naughty Naughty
gyrate, torrid, by-blow, paramour, cuckold, salacious, philander, john thomas, uxorious, lithe, skivvies, coquet and 56 more...
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Fox
babydoll, boo-boo, buttercup, unkempt, vitality, grave, satyr, honeyed, cafe au lait, cha-cha, dusky, purr and 5 more...
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/captrap\
ebullience, prestigious, razzle, derelict, decrepit, adieu, ennui, oblique, allegretto, shatter, fantastical, chandelier and 67 more...
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Complexion
Describing blushes, blanches; plus skin colors
sallow, coquelicot, ecru, ashen, pallid, cerise, croydon-sanguine, tallow-colored, tallow, rutilant, candicant, ruddy and 22 more...
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