The noun sweet has 5 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Sweet, Henry Sweet -- (English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912))
2. dessert, sweet, afters -- (a dish served as the last course of a meal)
3. sweet, confection -- (a food rich in sugar)
4. sweet, sweetness, sugariness -- (the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth)
5. sweetness, sweet -- (the property of tasting as if it contains sugar)
Overview of adj sweet
The adj sweet has 10 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (9) sweet -- (having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar)
2. (4) angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet -- (having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition")
3. (3) dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet -- (pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello")
4. (2) sweet -- (pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child")
5. (2) gratifying, sweet -- (pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge")
6. (2) odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling -- (having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers")
7. (1) sweet -- ((used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines")
8. fresh, sweet -- (not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water")
The adv sweet has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) sweetly, sweet -- (in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other")