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شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
شبکه مترجمین ایران
english
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adj. lovable: She was a sweet girl. noun candy: They all ate some sweets. adj. sugary: We ate some sweet pudding.
Simple Definitions
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noun ADJ. chewy, sugary | boiled QUANT. bag, box, packet, tube VERB + SWEET eat, suck sucking a boiled sweet SWEET + NOUN shop
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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sweet sweet food or drink has had sugar added or contains natural sugars: • Italian oranges are very sweet. • a cup of hot sweet tea sugary sweet because a lot of sugar has been added: • Sugary foods are bad for your teeth. sickly British English tasting unpleasantly sweet: • The dessert was rather sweet and sickly. • a sickly sweet fruit drink cloying tasting or smelling unpleasantly sweet: • I find strawberry and peach drinks too cloying. • the cloying smell of fish oil
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. tasting like sugar/smelling pleasant VERBS be, smell, taste The air smelled sweet and clean. | make sth | find sth I found the dessert a bit sweet for my taste. ADV. extremely, very | a bit, quite, rather, slightly | enough Is the tea sweet enough for you? | sickly an overpowering, sickly sweet smell nice VERBS be, look | keep sb (informal) He'd promised her a new car, just to keep her sweet (= keep her in a good mood). ADV. awfully, really, terribly, very | quite, rather PREP. to She was really sweet to me. PHRASES sweet little a rather sweet little cottage
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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In addition to the idioms beginning with SWEET, Also see SHORT AND SWEET; TAKE THE BITTER WITH THE SWEET.
American Heritage Idioms