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sweetly.

With a sweet taste or aroma.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adv/ˈswiːtli/
  1. With a sweet taste or aroma.

  2. In a sweet or pleasant manner.

  3. Nicely; finely; excellently.

Where this word comes from

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”).

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