SWEET
What does "SWEET" mean?
Having the pleasant sugary taste of honey or sugar.
Meanings
- Tasting of sugar; the basic taste opposite to sour or bitter. The first strawberries of June are impossibly sweet.
- Pleasing, kind, or endearing in manner or character. It was sweet of you to wait up for me.
- Pleasant to the senses generally; fragrant or melodious. The sweet smell of cut grass drifted through the window.
- A small shaped piece of confectionery; candy. The children spent their pennies on sweets. informal
- An exclamation of approval or delight. Sweet! We got the last two tickets. informal
Did you know?
- Humans can detect sweetness from one specialized receptor pair, T1R2-T1R3 - and cats, which carry a broken copy of the T1R2 gene, are physically unable to taste sweet at all.
Word origin
From Old English 'swete', from Proto-Germanic 'swotijaz', tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root 'swad-' that also yields Latin 'suavis' and English 'suave'.
Remember it
SWEET has a double 'ee' in the middle - sweet things make you say 'eee!' with delight.
A little poem
Sugar on the tongue-
the word dissolves before it
warns you of the ache.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my honey she was sweet, and she said the feeling was mutual - which, in bees, is just how the business works.
What it teaches
What tastes sweetest fastest is often what fades first; depth keeps better than sugar.
Quick facts
What does SWEET mean?
Having the pleasant sugary taste of honey or sugar.
Is SWEET a valid word?
Yes — SWEET is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SWEET?
SWEET has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SWEET come from?
From Old English 'swete', from Proto-Germanic 'swotijaz', tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root 'swad-' that also yields Latin 'suavis' and English 'suave'.
What can SWEET teach us?
What tastes sweetest fastest is often what fades first; depth keeps better than sugar.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.