honey-sweet

[ huhn-ee-sweet ]

adjective

1. sweet as honey.

honey-sweet

adjective

1. sweet or endearing

Word History and Origins

Origin of honey-sweet¹

before 1000; Middle English hony sweete, Old English hunig swēte

Example Sentences

Sometimes G was a people pleaser, offering to cook or clean for Clark in a honey-sweet voice.

From New York Times

On a sunny day in late July they hang translucent on the tree, as if lit by a candle. their flesh becomes soft and melting and the juice honey-sweet, a sticky golden nectar. if i could have just one tree it would be a plum.

From Salon

Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.

From Literature

It was just the two of them, this middle-aged man and Iris, with her sleek dark hair and honey-sweet voice, skin flushed beneath the protective layers of her N95 and surgical masks.

From New York Times

We spent lazy hours on the pebbled beaches, picked honey-sweet figs straight from trees, ate fresh fish with delicious deep-red tomatoes, and enjoyed grandparent-provided child care.

From New York Times