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Definition: Sweetish |
SweetishAdjective1. Somewhat sweet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweetish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Fault of an unbalanced wine still containing some residual sugar. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sweetish |
| English words defined with "sweetish": Ailanthus altissima, algarroba, algarroba bean ♦ Betaine ♦ Camel's thorn, carob, carob bean, Citrus limetta ♦ Dutch liquid ♦ Galium lanceolatum, Gentianose ♦ Haematexylin, Hesperetin ♦ licorice fern, locust bean, locust pod ♦ marang, Mountain licorice ♦ Polypodium glycyrrhiza, Pudding pipe ♦ sarcosine, Scyllite, serine, Spirit of nitrous ether, Strawberry pear, Subdulcid, sugar pine, sweet lemon, sweet lime ♦ tartar emetic, tree of heaven, tree of the gods ♦ White arsenic, wild licorice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweetish": SAMANEA SAMAN. (references) |
| "Sweetish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Sweetish" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sweetish": sweetish-sour. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bakery hill sweetish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweetish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pak i ëmbël. (various references) | |
Arabic | ذو مذاق حلو. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сладникав (mawkish, saccharine, sickly, sugary, syrupy, treacly), възсладък. (various references) | |
Danish | sødlig. (various references) | |
Dutch | zoetig. (various references) | |
Finnish | makeahko, imelähkö. (various references) | |
French | doucereux (sickly sweet), douceâtre, au goût sucré. (various references) | |
German | süßlich (cloying, honeyed, mawkish, pretty-pretty, sickly, slobbery, sugary, treacly). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυκερός, γλυκούτσικοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתקתק (saccharin, saccharine, sugary, treacly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | édeskés (bland, fulsome, luscious, mawkish, namby-pamby, silky, sugary, treacly, unctuous). (various references) | |
Italian | dolcigno, dolciastro, abboccato (sweet). (various references) | |
Manx | milljagh, lieh villish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eetishsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | adocicado (luscious, mellow, sugary). (various references) | |
Romanian | dulcişor, dulceag (fulsome, mellow, soppy). (various references) | |
Russian | сладковатый. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sladunjav (churchy, greasy, saccharine). (various references) | |
Spanish | manita (E421, manitol(C6H8(0H)6), mannite, mannitol, sour-sweet, sweet-sour), ligeramente dulce, algo dulce, agridulce (bittersweet, sweet-and-sour). (various references) | |
Swedish | sötaktig. (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlımsı, tatlıca. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | солодкуватий (namby-pamby, sugary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngòn ngọt, hơi ngọt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweetish": sweetishly. (additional references) | |
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"Sweetish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tweedish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sweetish" (pronounced 'Sweet"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: hessite. | |
-2 letters: heists, sheets, shiest, sweets, swithe, theses, thesis, whists, whites, wisest, wishes, withes. | |
-3 letters: heist, hests, hists, seise, sheet, shews, shies, shist, sites, stews, sties, sweet, swish, swith, these, thews, weest, weets, wests, whets, whist, white, whits, wises, wists, wites, withe. | |
-4 letters: eses, eths, ewes, hest, hets, hews, hies, hiss, hist, hits, sees. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: whiteness. | |
+2 letters: sweetishly, weightless. | |
+3 letters: washeterias, wealthiness, weightiness, whitefishes, whitenesses, whitewashes. | |
+4 letters: waterishness, weightlessly, whitewashers, worthinesses. | |
+5 letters: growthinesses, pennywhistles, seaworthiness, speechwriters, swarthinesses, wealthinesses, weightinesses. | |
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