sweet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Having the taste of sugar or a substance containing or resembling sugar, as honey or saccharin.
2. adj. Containing or derived from sugar.
3. adj. Retaining some natural sugar; not dry: a sweet wine.
4. adj. Pleasing to the senses; agreeable: the sweet song of the lark; a sweet face.
5. adj. Pleasing to the mind or feelings; gratifying: sweet revenge.
6. adj. Having a pleasing disposition; lovable: a sweet child.
7. adj. Kind; gracious: It was sweet of him to help out.
8. adj. Fragrant; perfumed: a sweet scent.
9. adj. Not saline or salted: sweet water; sweet butter.
10. adj. Not spoiled, sour, or decaying; fresh: sweet milk.
11. adj. Free of acid or acidity: sweet soil.
12. adj. Low in sulfur content: sweet fuel oil.
13. adj. Music Of, relating to, or being a form of jazz characterized by adherence to a melodic line and to a time signature.
14. adj. Used as an intensive: took his own sweet time to finish; earns a sweet million per year.
15. adv. In a sweet manner; sweetly.
16. n. Sweet taste or quality; sweetness.
17. n. Something sweet to the taste.
18. n. Foods, such as candy, pastries, puddings, or preserves, that are high in sugar content.
19. n. Informal Sweet potatoes: candied sweets.
20. n. Chiefly British A sweet dish, such as pudding, served as dessert.
21. n. Chiefly British A sweetmeat or confection.
22. n. A dear or beloved person.
23. n. Something pleasing to the mind or feelings.
24. idiom. sweet on Informal Enamored of; in love with.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pleasing to the taste; having a pleasant taste or flavor like that of sugar or honey; also, having a fresh, natural taste, as distinguished from a taste that is stale, sour, or rancid.
2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; perfumed.
3. Pleasing to the ear; making agreeable music; musical; soft; melodious; harmonious: as, a sweet singer; a sweet song.
4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; attractive; charming.
5. Pleasing, agreeable, grateful, or soothing to the mind or emotional nature; exciting pleasant or agreeable feelings; charming; delightful; attractive; hence, dearly loved; precious.
6. Gracious; kind; amiable: as, sweet manners: formerly often used as a term of complimentary address: as. sweet sir.
7. Free from sour or otherwise excessive taste.
8. Fresh; not salt or salted.
9. Being in a sound or wholesome state; not sour or spoiled; not putrescent or putrid: as, sweet meat.
10. In archery, of a bow, soft in flexure and recoil. See the last quotation under sweetness.
11. Synonyms Luscious, sugary, honeyed.
12. Redolent, balmy.
13. Dulcet.
14. Engaging, winning, lovely.
15. Lovable.
16. n. The quality of being sweet; sweetness.
17. n. Something sweet to the taste: used chiefly in the plural.
18. n. Confections; bonbons: as, he brought a box of sweets for the children.
19. n. Sweet dishes served at table, as puddings, tarts, creams, or jellies: as, a course of sweets preceded fruit and coffee.
20. n. Home-made fermented or unfermented liquors, as meads or metheglin.
21. n. That which is pleasant to the sense of smell; a perfume.
22. n. Something pleasing or grateful to the mind, heart, or desires: as, the sweets of domestic life; the sweets of office.
23. n. One who is dear to another; a darling: a word of endearment.
24. To make sweet; sweeten.
25. Sweetly; in a sweet manner; so as to be sweet.
26. In mech., smooth; done without appearance of effort; easy; well-lubricated: as, a sweet run; a sweet cut.
27. In mining, free from deleterious gases.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
2. adj. Having a taste of sugar.
3. adj. Containing a sweetening ingredient.
4. adj. wine Retaining a portion of sugar.
5. adj. Not having a salty taste.
6. adj. Having a pleasant smell.
7. adj. Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
8. adj. Having a pleasant sound.
9. adj. Having a pleasing disposition.
10. adj. Having a helpful disposition.
11. adj. mineralogy Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
12. adj. informal Very pleasing; agreeable.
13. adj. informal Romantically fixated, enamored (followed by with), fond (followed by of).
14. adv. In a sweet manner.
15. n. uncountable The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
16. n. countable, UK A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy.
17. n. countable, UK A food eaten for dessert.
18. n. sweetheart

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter
2. adj. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy.
3. adj. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious.
4. adj. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
5. adj. Fresh; not salt or brackish.
6. adj. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid.
7. adj. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive.
8. n. That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
9. n. Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
10. n. Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
11. n. That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
12. n. That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind.
13. n. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
14. adv. Sweetly.
15. v. obsolete To sweeten.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. having a natural fragrance
2. n. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
3. adj. not containing or composed of salt water
4. adj. with sweetening added
5. adj. pleasing to the mind or feeling
6. adj. pleasing to the senses
7. n. English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
8. adj. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
9. adj. pleasing to the ear
10. adj. not soured or preserved
11. n. a food rich in sugar
12. adj. (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
13. adv. in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
14. n. a dish served as the last course of a meal
15. adj. having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
16. n. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar