Pleasing to the taste; having a pleasant taste or flavor like that of sugar or honey; also, having a fresh, natural taste, as distinguished from a taste that is stale, sour, or rancid.Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; perfumed.Pleasing to the ear; making agreeable music; musical; soft; melodious; harmonious: as, a sweet singer; a sweet song.Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; attractive; charming.Pleasing, agreeable, grateful, or soothing to the mind or emotional nature; exciting pleasant or agreeable feelings; charming; delightful; attractive; hence, dearly loved; precious.Gracious; kind; amiable: as, sweet manners: formerly often used as a term of complimentary address: as. sweet sir.Free from sour or otherwise excessive taste.Fresh; not salt or salted.Being in a sound or wholesome state; not sour or spoiled; not putrescent or putrid: as, sweet meat.In archery, of a bow, soft in flexure and recoil. See the last quotation under sweetness.Synonyms Luscious, sugary, honeyed.Redolent, balmy.Dulcet.Engaging, winning, lovely.Lovable.n. The quality of being sweet; sweetness.n. Something sweet to the taste: used chiefly in the plural.n. Confections; bonbons: as, he brought a box of sweets for the children.n. Sweet dishes served at table, as puddings, tarts, creams, or jellies: as, a course of sweets preceded fruit and coffee.n. Home-made fermented or unfermented liquors, as meads or metheglin.n. That which is pleasant to the sense of smell; a perfume.n. Something pleasing or grateful to the mind, heart, or desires: as, the sweets of domestic life; the sweets of office.n. One who is dear to another; a darling: a word of endearment.To make sweet; sweeten.Sweetly; in a sweet manner; so as to be sweet.In mech., smooth; done without appearance of effort; easy; well-lubricated: as, a sweet run; a sweet cut.In mining, free from deleterious gases.