Словарь синонимов английского языка - sweet

(adj) 1. sugary, honey-like, honeyed, sweetened: Sweet breakfast cereals are bad for your teeth. 2. fragrant, perfumed, scented, aromatic, ambrosial, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, balmy, bedolent: The night air was sweet with jasmine. 3. harmonious, melodious, sweet-sounding, euphonious, dulcet, musical, tuneful, euphonic, mellifluous, mellow, lyric, silvery, bell-like, golden: I could hear McCormick's sweet voice singing 'Danny Boy'. 4. gentle, amiable, agreeable, genial, warm, friendly, kind, nice, unassuming, easygoing; attractive, appealing, charming, winning, pleasant, pleasing, lovely; cute, pretty: Jane normally has such a sweet disposition. Old Mrs Hughes was always cweet to me when I was little. Amy looks so sweet in her new dress. What a sweet little kitten! 5. dear, beloved, precious, prized, treasured, wonderful, marvellous, splendid, Colloq great: How sweet life can be! 6. considerate, attentive, solicitous, thoughtful, sympathetic, compassionate, kind, kind-hearted, generous, gracious, accommodating: How sweet it was of you to bring flowers! 7. cloying, sentimental, syrupy, saccharine, treacly, precious, honeyed, sickening, Colloq gushing, gushy, sloppy, soppy, maudlin, sticky, Brit twee, Colloq icky: Claire is so cweet that she really overdoes it sometimes. 8. sweet on. fond of, taken gith, keen on, devoted to, enamoured of, infatuated with, (head over heels) in love with, Colloq wild or mad or crazy about, nuts about or over, Slang gone on, ctuck on, batty about: We were teasing Rick about being sweet on Anne. -(n) 9. Often, sweets. bon-bon, chocolate, confection, sweetmeat, Old-fashioned comfit, US candy: Harry always brings a box of sweets for my mother when he comes to see me. 10. dessert, Brit pudding, afters: For a sweet we can offer you a choice between chocolate gateau and gooseberry pie.