sweet

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(BrE) noun ⇨ See also ↑candy

ADJECTIVE

▪ chewy, jelly, sugary

▪ boiled

▪ cough, throat

… OF SWEETS

▪ bag, box, packet

VERB + SWEET

▪ eat, suck

▪

I was sucking a boiled sweet.

SWEET + NOUN

▪ shop

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adj.

1 tasting like sugar/smelling pleasant

VERBS

▪ be, smell, taste

▪

The air smelled sweet and clean.

▪ make sth

▪ find sth

▪

I found the dessert a little sweet for my taste.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

▪ enough

▪

Is the tea sweet enough for you?

▪ sickly

▪

an overpowering, sickly sweet smell

2 nice

VERBS

▪ be, look, seem, sound

▪ keep sb (informal)

▪

He'd promised her a new car, just to keep her sweet (= keep her in a good mood).

ADVERB

▪ awfully, really, terribly, very

▪ sickeningly, sugary

▪

a sickeningly sweet smile

PREPOSITION

▪ to

▪

She was really sweet to me.

PHRASES

▪ dear sweet … 

▪

My dear sweet sister Jillie.

▪ short and sweet

▪

I'll keep it short and sweet (= speak briefly).

▪ sweet and innocent

▪

She looked so sweet and innocent.

▪ sweet little

▪

a sweet little smile

Sweet is used with these nouns: ↑air, ↑apple, ↑aroma, ↑champagne, ↑cherry, ↑cider, ↑coffee, ↑corn, ↑craving, ↑cream, ↑deal, ↑dessert, ↑dish, ↑disposition, ↑drink, ↑embrace, ↑face, ↑flavour, ↑flesh, ↑food, ↑fragrance, ↑fruit, ↑gesture, ↑girl, ↑grape, ↑guy, ↑innocence, ↑jar, ↑kiss, ↑lady, ↑melody, ↑memory, ↑music, ↑odour, ↑onion, ↑orange, ↑pastry, ↑pepper, ↑perfume, ↑potato, ↑relief, ↑revenge, ↑roll, ↑sauce, ↑scent, ↑sherry, ↑smell, ↑smile, ↑snack, ↑sound, ↑spot, ↑talk, ↑taste, ↑tea, ↑thing, ↑tone, ↑treat, ↑trolley, ↑voice, ↑wine, ↑wrapper