Antonyms for sweetmeat


Grammar : Noun
Spell : sweet-meet
Phonetic Transcription : ˈswitˌmit


Definition of sweetmeat

  • As in sweet : noun sugary food
  • As in sweets : noun food with a high sugar content
  • As in candy : noun confection
  • As in sweets : noun sweet foods
Example sentences :
  • It is now used as the name of a pudding rolled with sweetmeat.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 » by Various
  • Their minds were so bent upon this piece of sweetmeat that all the rest were disregarded.
  • Extract from : « Forgotten Tales of Long Ago » by E. V. Lucas
  • One moment you were angry, and the next your face looked like a sweetmeat.
  • Extract from : « Crime and Punishment » by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Then close the paste round the sweetmeat, so as to form a dumpling.
  • Extract from : « Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book » by Eliza Leslie
  • This piece may have come from a large bowl or sweetmeat dish.
  • Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins
  • You might stuff it into your nose, your sweetmeat; it would go in.
  • Extract from : « Paul and His Dog, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIII) » by Charles Paul de Kock
  • But one day she forgot, and did not bring him the sweetmeat.
  • Extract from : « The Kath Sarit Sgara » by Somadeva Bhatta
  • He also described to me a curious European sweetmeat that he had met with in his travels.
  • Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray
  • Mixed with flour or incorporated with sweetmeat it is called hashish.
  • Extract from : « Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries » by C. J. S. Thompson
  • Jan thought of his sweetmeat, and took it out for the third time.
  • Extract from : « Just Sixteen. » by Susan Coolidge

Synonyms for sweetmeat

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