Honey-sweet

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    As sweet as honey; very sweet.

    "Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he."

Example

More examples

"There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet fields of clover."

Etymology

From Middle English hony-swete; equivalent to honey + sweet.

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