Roget's Thesaurus

#396. 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) 298. 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

eau sucr_ee [Fr.]; sweets to the sweet [Hamlet].