sweetly

/'swi:tli/

Thân thiện

The baby smiles sweetly at her mother.

Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a pleasant, kind, or agreeable manner: Describes an action done with gentleness, charm, or affection.
   • In a melodious or pleasing way: Describes a sound that is soft and pleasant to hear.
   • With a sweet taste or fragrance: (Less common, often poetic) Describes something having a sugary taste or pleasant smell.

Usage and Examples

• Adverb (Manner):
  • She smiled sweetly at the guests. (She smiled in a kind and charming way.)
  • The child asked sweetly for another cookie. (The child asked in a gentle, pleasing manner.)
• Adverb (Sound):
  • The birds sang sweetly in the morning. (The birds sang in a melodious, pleasant way.)
  • He whistled the tune sweetly and clearly. (He whistled the melody in a pleasing, tuneful way.)
• Adverb (Taste/Smell - poetic):
  • The air smelled sweetly of jasmine. (The air had a pleasant fragrance of jasmine.)

Advanced Usage

• "to talk/speak sweetly": to speak in a gentle, flattering, or affectionate tone.
  • He spoke sweetly to calm her down.
• "to smile sweetly": to smile in a way that appears genuinely kind, charming, or sometimes innocently deceptive.
  • She smiled sweetly, hiding her disappointment.

Variants and Related Words

• Sweet (adj): Having a pleasant taste like sugar; pleasing in general.
  • a sweet melody, a sweet child
• Sweetness (n): The quality of being sweet.
  • the sweetness of her voice

Synonyms

• Gently: in a mild, soft, or careful manner.
• Kindly: in a kind, sympathetic, or benevolent way.
• Melodiously: in a manner producing a pleasing succession of sounds.
• Pleasantly: in an enjoyable or agreeable way.

Antonyms

• Harshly: in a cruel, severe, or unkind manner.
• Sourly: in a bitter, resentful, or morose manner.
• Unpleasantly: in a disagreeable or offensive way.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• To be sweet on someone: (Idiom, informal) To be fond of or in love with someone. (Note: This idiom uses the adjective 'sweet', not the adverb 'sweetly').
  • He's been sweet on her since high school.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')
   • Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly
   • how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank- Shakespeare
   • talking sweet to each other

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sweet