In a sweet or pleasant manner.

(Southern US, Midland US) A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup.

(Southern US, Midland US) Sugar.

simple past tense and past participle of sweeten

made to taste sweet / containing sweetener / (figuratively) made more appealing or more attractive with incentives

(chiefly endearing) A sweetheart; a beloved person.

Forbidden things seem more appealing; people want things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.

comparative form of sweet: more sweet

plural of sweetbread

An amphidromous fish, the ayu of East Asia (Plecoglossus altivelis), the only member of its genus and family Plecoglossidae, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh, especially in Japan, as a game fish, and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.