sweet vs ambrosia

ambrosia vs sweet

sweet and ambrosia both are nouns.

sweet is an adjective but ambrosia is not an adjective.

sweet is an adverb but ambrosia is not an adverb.

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

As nouns, ambrosia is a hyponym of sweet; that is, ambrosia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sweet:

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

Other hyponyms of sweet include baked Alaska, blancmange, charlotte, compote, fruit compote, dumpling, flan, frozen dessert, junket, mousse, pavlova, peach melba, whip, pudding, pud, pudding, sillabub, syllabub, tiramisu, sabayon, zabaglione, mold, mould.

sweet (noun)	ambrosia (noun)
the property of tasting as if it contains sugar	(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth	fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
a food rich in sugar	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 dish served as the last course of a meal	a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae

sweet (adjective)	ambrosia (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

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

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