dulcet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English doucet, from Old French doucet, from dulz, dulce (“sweet, pleasant”) + diminutive -et, from Latin dulcis (“sweet, pleasant”). Cognate with Spanish dulce, French doux, Italian dolce, Portuguese doce, and Romanian dulce. Doublet of dolcetto and doucet.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
dulcet
- Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
- Synonyms: birdsweet, mellifluous
- Generally pleasing; agreeable.
- (archaic) Sweet to the taste.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- […] for drink the Grape / She crushes, inoffensive must, and meads / From many a berry, and from sweet kernels prest / She tempers dulcet creams […]
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Translations[edit]
sweet (voice, tone), melodious
generally pleasing, soothing, agreeable
sweet to the taste
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Verb[edit]
dulcet
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