sweetly
Variant of sweet
adjective
- having a taste of, or like that of, sugar
- containing sugar in some form: sweet wines
- having a generally agreeable taste, smell, sound, appearance, etc.; pleasant
- agreeable to the mind; gratifying: sweet praise
- having a friendly, pleasing disposition; characterized by kindliness and gentleness: a sweet girl
- dear: formerly a polite form of address: sweet sir
- sentimental, saccharine, or cloying
- Slang good, delightful, etc.: a generalized epithet of approval
- not rancid, spoiled, sour, or fermented: sweet milk, sweet cider
- not salty or salted: said of water or butter
- free from sourness or acidity: said of soil
- Chem.
- free from unpleasant odors and gases
- purified and free from acid, corrosive elements, etc.
- Jazz designating or of music or playing characterized by more or less strict adherence to melody, sentimentality or blandness in tone and rhythm, and a moderate tempo
noun
- the quality of being sweet; sweetness
- sweet foods
- Chiefly Brit. a piece of candy, or a sweet dessert
- something, as an experience, that gives delight or satisfaction: usually used in pl.: the sweets of victory
- ☆ sweet potato
- a sweet, or beloved, person; darling
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