sweet
Tasting of sugars.
Example
“a sweet apple”
Other meanings
Retaining a portion of sugar.
“Sweet wines are better dessert wines.”
Not of a salty taste.
“sweet butter”
Antonyms
- sour
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "swēte".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sweet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.