sweetest
- 1Superlative of sweet.
The sweetest grapes come from vines grown in full sun.
He wrote her the sweetest letter, full of gentle apologies.
Note
This superlative is formed the regular way, with -est, and it ranks whichever quality sweet happens to carry: sugar in the grapes, a pleasant smell, a pleasant sound, even freshness, since sweet can mean not stale or sour. Context decides which scale is meant. Like most superlatives it normally takes the (the sweetest grapes), and in praise such as the sweetest letter it often signals warmth rather than a strict comparison.
sweetest is a form of sweet
sweet, adjective: Having the taste of sugar, including a wine that keeps some of its sugar rather than being fully dry. Full entry
- Spelling
- sweet → sweetest: add -est
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