What does sweet mean?
Word: Sweet
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Sweet means tasting of sugar or honey. It also describes someone kind and gentle, or a smell or sound that is pleasant.
Synonyms: sugary, kind, pleasant
Antonyms: sour, salty
Sounds like: suite (a set of rooms, especially in a hotel)
How do you spell sweet?
Syllables: sweet
Tricky part: The long ee sound is spelt with a double e. Do not mix it up with suite, a set of hotel rooms, which sounds the same.
Watch out for: swet, sweit, sweeet
Memory tip: Two e's sit side by side in sweet, like two sugar cubes in a cup of tea.
Idioms and Phrases
- have a sweet tooth: To love eating sweet things. Example: "Theo has a sweet tooth and always asks for a second slice of cake."
Sweet in a sentence
Example 1: The mangoes from Ratnagiri are very sweet.
Example 2: Thank you for the sweet note you left me.
Example 3: We heard the sweet song of a blackbird in the morning.
Fun Fact
The old idea of a tongue map, with sweetness tasted only at the tip, is a myth. Every part of the tongue that has taste buds can sense sweetness.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
sweet
a) bitter
b) tasty
c) ripe
d) juicy
Show answer
a) bitter. Ripe, tasty and juicy fruit can all be sweet, but bitter is the opposite taste, like black coffee.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) biscuit
b) pudding
c) choclate
d) sweet
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c) choclate. Chocolate keeps the o in its middle, choc-o-late; the other three are correct.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
sweet
a) nes
b) niss
c) nis
d) ness
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d) ness. Ness turns an adjective into a noun, and sweet keeps all its letters: sweetness.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tewes
a) sweep
b) sweat
c) sweet
d) tweet
Show answer
c) sweet. Sweat needs an a, sweep a p and tweet a second t; s, w, t and two e's make sweet.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which food is sweet with no sugar added?
a) a ripe mango
b) a raw lemon
c) a bitter gourd
d) a green chilli
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a) a ripe mango
2. Sweet can describe a sound too. Which would you call sweet?
a) a dog barking at night
b) a car horn in traffic
c) a flute playing softly
d) a pressure cooker whistle
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c) a flute playing softly
