Definition of Sweeter

1. Adjective. (comparative of sweet) ¹

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Definition of Sweeter

1. sweet [adj] - See also: sweet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweeter

sweetcheeks
sweetcorn
sweetcorns
sweetcure
sweete
sweeted
sweeten
sweeten the pot
sweeten up
sweetened
sweetener
sweeteners
sweetening
sweetenings
sweetens
sweeter (current term)
sweetest
sweetfish
sweetfishes
sweetgum
sweetgums
sweetheart
sweetheart deal
sweetheart deals
sweethearthood
sweethearting
sweethearts
sweetie
sweetie pie
sweeties

Literary usage of Sweeter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"... is, that our home might be made the sweeter to us.1 Well said, Samuel, quoth the guide; thou hast now spoken like a man.—Why, if ever I get out here ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"And sweet as a muskrat, or sweeter. "The Port Folio,' i. 264 (Phila.). 1834 He was like one of those warped, gnarled, ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Rattling their empty chariots sought forlorn Their noble lords ; but they on earth lay dead, sweeter to vultures' than to women's eyes ! Clear of the moil, ..."

4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Then sweeter it sang and-e ver sweeter, And said, ' I am thine, thine, thine ! ' At the first Leaf she grew pale enough, At the second she turned aside, ..."

5. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1905)
"Never in the history of the world was the public conscience more sensitive; never was individual life sweeter and nobler ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"(Ghosh, JCS Abstr. 1917, 112, (i.) SO). It is very soluble in water, almost insoluble in cold absoluto alcohol. It is much sweeter than dextrose ..."

7. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"... is, that our home might be made the sweeter to us.1 Well said, Samuel, quoth the guide; thou hast now spoken like a man.—Why, if ever I get out here ..."

8. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"And sweet as a muskrat, or sweeter. "The Port Folio,' i. 264 (Phila.). 1834 He was like one of those warped, gnarled, ..."

9. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Rattling their empty chariots sought forlorn Their noble lords ; but they on earth lay dead, sweeter to vultures' than to women's eyes ! Clear of the moil, ..."

10. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Then sweeter it sang and-e ver sweeter, And said, ' I am thine, thine, thine ! ' At the first Leaf she grew pale enough, At the second she turned aside, ..."

11. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1905)
"Never in the history of the world was the public conscience more sensitive; never was individual life sweeter and nobler ..."

12. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"(Ghosh, JCS Abstr. 1917, 112, (i.) SO). It is very soluble in water, almost insoluble in cold absoluto alcohol. It is much sweeter than dextrose ..."

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