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📖 Определения и значения для слова sweet

📒 containing, or tasting as if it contains, a lot of sugar

  • a cup of hot sweet tea
  • sweet food
  • I had a craving for something sweet.

📒 having a pleasant smell

  • a sweet-smelling rose
  • The air was sweet with incense.
  • The air smelled sweet and clean.

📒 having a pleasant sound

  • a sweet voice

📒 pleasant and not containing any harmful substances

  • the sweet air of a mountain village

📒 making you feel happy and/or satisfied

  • Goodnight. Sweet dreams.
  • I can't tell you how sweet this victory is.
  • He played a sweet shot onto the final green (= in golf).

📒 attractive

  • His sister's a sweet young thing.
  • You look sweet in this photograph.
  • We stayed in a sweet little hotel on the seafront.

📒 having or showing a kind character

  • She gave him her sweetest smile.
  • He's one of the sweetest people I know.
  • it is sweet of somebody to do something It was sweet of them to offer to help.

📒 used to show that you approve of something

  • Free tickets? Sweet!

📒 to like somebody very much in a romantic way

📒 to like food that contains a lot of sugar

📒 used to say how pleasant your home is (especially when you really mean that it is not pleasant at all)

📒 how and when you want to, even though this might annoy other people

  • He always does the work, but in his own sweet time.
  • She just ignores all the criticism and continues in her own sweet way.

📒 to say or do pleasant things in order to keep somebody in a good mood so that they will agree to do something for you

  • You’d better keep her sweet if you want her to lend you the money.

📒 what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called

📒 everything is all right

📒 pleasant but not lasting a long time

  • We haven't much time so I'll keep it short and sweet.

📒 nothing at all. People say ‘sweet FA’ to avoid saying ‘fuck all’.

📒 romantic words

  • to whisper sweet nothings in somebody’s ear

📒 the pleasant feeling of being successful

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