ambrosia vs sweet

sweet vs ambrosia

ambrosia and sweet both are nouns.

ambrosia is not an adjective while sweet is an adjective.

ambrosia is not an adverb while sweet is an adverb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ambrosia	Yes	No	No	No
sweet	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

As nouns, sweet is a hypernym of ambrosia; that is, sweet is a word with a broader meaning than ambrosia:

ambrosia: fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
sweet: a dish served as the last course of a meal

Other hypernyms of ambrosia include afters, dessert.

ambrosia (noun)	sweet (noun)
(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal	the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut	the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma	a food rich in sugar
a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae	a dish served as the last course of a meal

ambrosia (adjective)	sweet (adjective)
	not containing or composed of salt water
	(used of wines) having a high residual sugar content
	having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
	having a natural fragrance
	having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub
	pleasing to the ear
	with sweetening added
	not soured or preserved
	pleasing to the mind or feeling
	pleasing to the senses

ambrosia (adverb)	sweet (adverb)
	in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly')

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