Food / A2

SWEET/swiːt/

Sugar makes food sweet; a sweet person is kind in a pleasant way. Too sweet, a sweet smile. Savoury is the opposite taste (salt and spice). Sweets (noun, British) are confectionery. Cute overlaps with the “pleasant” meaning for people and small things.

Meaning

Tasting like sugar; or kind in a pleasant way.

Examples

• “This tea is too sweet.”
• “These apples are naturally sweet.”
• “That was a sweet thing to say.”

Good to know

sweet taste vs savoury. Kind person: sweet. BrE noun: sweets (candy).

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