Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Sweetness

Nouns
  • sweetness, dulcitude. sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna
  • confection, confectionary
  • sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep
  • sugar-candy, sugar-plum
  • licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat
  • apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose
  • maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar
  • mithai, sorghum, taffy. nectar
  • hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif. [sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets. [sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) [Eating.] Food. dulcification, dulcoration. sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose
  • artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low.
Verbs
  • be sweet etc. adj.. render sweet etc. adj.
  • sweeten
  • edulcorate
  • dulcorate, dulcify
  • candy
  • mull.
Adjectives
  • sweet
  • saccharine, sacchariferous
  • dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous
  • sweetened etc. v.. sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey. sickly sweet.
Phrases
  • sweets to the sweet" [Hamlet].