adv
Meaning 1
With a sweet taste or aroma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sweetly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈswiːtli/
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CMU ARPABET: S W IY1 T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
In a sweet or pleasant manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adv
Meaning 3
Nicely; finely; excellently.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adverb
Meaning 4
in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')- Shakespeare
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly
- how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank
- talking sweet to each other
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sweet
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English swetly, swetely, sweteliche, from Old English swētlīċe (“sweetly; pleasantly”), equivalent to sweet + -ly. Cognate with Old High German swuozlīhho (“sweetly”), Icelandic sætlega (“sweetly; with gratitude”), German süßlich (“sweetish; sugary”), Dutch zoetelijk (“sentimental”).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: ëmblas — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Armenian: քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr) — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Belarusian: со́ладка (sóladka) — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Catalan: dolçament — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Czech: sladce — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Esperanto: dolĉe — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Esperanto: aminde — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Finnish: makeasti — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- French: doucement — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Georgian: ტკბილად (ṭḳbilad) — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- German: süß — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Hungarian: édesen — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Italian: dolcemente — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Italian: carezzevolmente — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Italian: soavemente — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Latin: dulciter — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Latin: suāviter — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Latvian: saldi — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Lithuanian: mielai — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Middle English: swoote — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Norman: douochement — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Old English: swōte — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Polish: słodko — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Portuguese: docemente — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Romanian: dulce — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Russian: сла́дко (sládko) — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Spanish: dulcemente — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Spanish: abemoladamente — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Swedish: sött — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Turkish: tatlı tatlı — in a sweet or pleasant manner
- Ukrainian: со́лодко (sólodko) — in a sweet or pleasant manner
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